I cannot force someone else’s tenants to not do legal things in their home.Eric: offering them out of their lease is probably my only option.

Increasing the rent would force the tenant to leave.

Yes, I am planning to rent it when I am forced to PCS in 2 years which is not defaulting agreement.

There's no force savings account with a single family detached, that's up to the owner.  

Why not "roll the dice" on a market with highly stochastic appreciation where the mean is NOT zero (but more like 6%-8%), then further tilt the odds in your favor by forcing some appreciation and still getting your long term cash flow from rent increases while not worrying about having to try to dance in and out of investments at the perfect timing via 1031 exchange and eating transaction costs?

I doubt this is a cheep fix,, where you gonna find a tile to match..Your going to have to grind out mortar, mastic a  new one in that I doubt you will find a match for it and then re grout..it's in a worse than awful spot on an inside and in a corner.. you'll probalby have to take several tiles out..tile work is tricky once you start to force one tile the others chip..  

It has a ton of potential because of the location and the huge Air Force base but investors perception of the risk if the base close causes properties there to remain very low priced and so does the rents.

Yes wholesaling can generate people some quick cash, but if you already have a full time job and a family, I think you may be in for a rude awakening of just how much work goes into getting your first deal(which statistics show can take months of mailers and thus $$$ before getting a deal).If you are paying credit card debt off with interest, most likely it is in the 16%+ range, which almost no investment property off the MLS will have an ROI high enough to justify putting off paying your credit cards in exchange for a rental property.Once your high interest( > 8% interest) debt is paid off, I think your next step should be put a 10% "personal tax" on yourself by forcing yourself to set aside 10% of your income towards investments.

It was operational then and yielded a cash flow to me and by making improvements over time, I forced appreciation on the 6-plex and sold a cash flow to my buyer. 

I think it's both the market as a whole and the REITs pushing up the prices and smaller investors forced to pay their game because there's so few large complexes like that left after the institutional investors gobble them up.