I love your dream, but, as an owner of several rental homes, you are better off renting someplace for a month or two furnished than to rent/repair/taxed to death your house.

I have done that for many years and even though it paid off a few years back when lean times come, or you get a bad tenant, wow! Of course, none of that happened to me, but, it could have.

Anyway, great write!

!tip