Hire a Property Manager
If the problem is the phone calls and not the property, a good PM at 8–10% of rents might buy back your peace without selling the asset.
Best if: the numbers still work after the fee and you want to stay invested. If this solves it, take it.
Keep It and Plan the Exit
If you’re within sight of a bigger plan — a 1031 exchange into something passive, or timing a market — holding might be right. Ask your CPA what a sale actually costs you this year versus next.
Best if: the property carries itself and your accountant sees a better exit window.
Empty It and List It
The retail path: wait out or negotiate the lease, fund the make-ready, then list. Highest potential price, but you pay for it in vacancy months, turn costs, and commissions — and it doesn’t work at all with a difficult tenancy.
Best if: the lease is ending anyway, the unit shows well, and you have the patience left.
Sell to Us As-Is, As-Occupied
One closing, tenants in place, leases and deposits transfer, no make-ready, no showings through your tenant’s living room. Works for one door or twenty — and it’s the only option on this list that works when the tenancy itself is the problem.
Best if: you want out cleanly, on a date you pick, without funding one more month of someone else’s housing.