Do I wait until the sellers handle it, however long it takes?

If you are leaning towards holding, maybe just wait another 9 months until we hit the summer hot market, put it out there and see what the response is.If there is no intention to move back to the area, then the funds from the sale can either take your family on a nice vacation, or be reinvested into another property.

I'd run it by them, and if you send your specifics to @Mindy Jensen, I bet she'd take the time to offer you authoritative feedback too.The '@-mentions' for Manolo, Andrew and Joe didn't turn blue for some reason so I suspect they won't be notified of the mention.  

You can set up alerts for any mentions of local areas.

I've tried yellow letters at one point, but I moved to non yellow letters because of the reason you mentioned.  

I  am in the middle of transferring money to a self directed IRA and can't wait to buy my first.Thanks again and all advice is welcome!!

That can easily be solved by joining the local REIA (Bluegrass Real Estate Investors Group) also like Ryan has mentioned.

Locating one will be challenging just like @Russell Brazil had mentioned. 

Don't mention rental assistance unless she brings it up, then tell her you are not interested in accepting this help.

It was in one of their classes that I heard a woman mention Bigger Pockets.Months later, I went to an REIA intro class here in Addison.