So, I decided to hire a property manager (Lesson 1: Never be a landlord if you're not going to be present to manage the property yourself - PMs take their 10% cut of the rent and do absolutely nothing in return) to rent the place out and sell in a few years after the market had recovered - which didn't happen in Colorado Springs until recently.
Last summer I gave my tenant her 60 day notice, found a listing agent, and my wife flew out to Colorado Springs to help prep the house for sale...
Turns out the tenant had totally trashed the place. In fact, she had been operating a rabbit breeding operation in the house (there were rabbit cages stacked floor-to-ceiling in some places, and a large outdoor hutch had been constructed in the back yard). Carpets ruined, feces smeared on walls, and a general unholy smell throughout the entire house. Hell, large amounts of rabbit bedding and feces had been dumped into the crawlspace.
This is the tenant I had cut a lot of slack to over the years with late payments, etc (Lesson 2: Never cut a tenant any slack - if you do they'll walk all over you).
What should have easily been a $40k profit (had the house sold at market rate) turned into a $5k loss (at least I didn't end up owing any capital gain tax, pfft). I will burn a house to the ground before I become a landlord ever again.
Also, Zillow keeps sending me updates on the property value (which magically keeps going up), despite my attempts to make it stop (I don't want to know, really) :(