Earlier in 2013 I attended FPU Financial Peace University by Dave Ramsey and learned a lot about not being debt.

@Joseph Sherercurrently I'm breathing and bleeding Midwest."

It makes ME breathe so much easier as a beginner on the REI journey that it's ok, in fact GOOD, to battle with these moral dilemmas. 

do you need to vet the buyer, get financing knocked out prior to acceptance. an ouch of prevention is worth a pound of curetechnology is something you can control. if you change your perspective of I can't do tech to I want to learn, maybe it may make difference. decide if you want to learn it or give it to a third party. this is something that is within your power to change. also see how important is this in your list of problems. spiritual faith is also under your control. take a breather and do what you need to reconnect. its very important to take a break and breathe hope this helps, we all have been here before

Do banks offer better "peace of mind" or anything like that would make them more desirable for any reason?

File it in the office of the Justice of the Peace in the precinct in which the rental property is located.

financial peace/ freedom with my time.  

He may already be stressed about it enough w/o his landlord breathing down his neck about something that may or may not happen.  

I may not (hopefully) ever have a need for that, but I like the peace of mind that comes with knowing that he can.

Sometimes it's just better to take a breath, let go and onto another.