nsr: Wait … why couldn’t I find a rental without a job, assuming I were paying cash up front for a year (which the $100k equity you clain would allow for)? There’s a non-zero number of landlords who’d go for a deal like that.
Minimize expenses, everyone goes to public school, deal with it. Or rent the house, pull as much out as possible, hope it covers its expenses, and pray for the best.
But anyway, if he hadn’t milked it in the early 2000s, he wouldn’t have been where he was to begin with.