@Dave Foster Thanks Dave... my thought was to try to get a 12 month lease on the property to give me time to get the sales and financing in place.

@Lien Vuong @Dave Foster Thank you for your insight - your thoughts are much appreciated. 

I am considering keeping the home as a rental (would use property manager), but I've read the literature here on BP as well as other sites about why renting your own home instead of selling can be a bad idea (emotional attachment, cash flow issues, sunk costs, etc.)

Jarrett, you can typically get a little more for the property if you're selling to someone who is going to live in it because the property is no longer a math problem like it is to investors, they buy based on emotion. 

Four people claiming they're too emotionally fragile to live without a dog.

If they treat it like a business and less like their residence (where lots of emotion is involved) then it could work, but I am not sure that they are thinking about it that way.

I am a little emotional about selling that house in Fl because I liked it a lot while I was stationed in there.

I had a great conversation with @Dave Foster yesterday, and he presented some ideas and alternatives I thought were worth considering.

Emotional support animals are a great example of how government starts out trying to do something good, but ends up creating a system fraught with fraud. 

This allows you to increase the value of your building without the emotional rollercoaster of the SF market that is based purely on emotional demand.