West Sacramento is becoming very popular due to being so close to downtown, easy freeway access, no crime, good schools, and close(ish) to San Francisco (well, closer than any other Sacramento suburb).

Buildium, Rentec, & Appfolio are popular options.

If the VA loan benefit is big that may give added weight to selling your dallas property

It's very popular strategy among our clients and a fantastic way to build wealthy quickly for those who don't need the investment income right now.

Ally, Discover, CIT, American Express, Goldman Sachs...are popular savings accounts among BP members. 

Second, is barn doors are not as popular as HGTV makes them out to be, especially in bedrooms.

Be aware, Jax has become popular for the out of state investors, turnkey or not.....this means there are those looking to take advantage.

I understand this is a popular question but the forum is too large to go thru all of the posts

you made a lot of good points why not to do this in your argument. opportunity cost, mediocre returns, and my favorite: you made this long descriptive post that took longer to write than to just stick the money in a high yield savings or GOD FORBID an equal weight ETF and actually MAKE money.Not to mention as Jason said, what's the return on equity of the paid off house?

I could be wrong though.. just like contract for deeds are popular in some states and in Texas looks like no Bueno :)