Deferring STR cash flow for the future?

[Wesley Myers]

A lot of talk here regarding cash flow. If our bigger goal is to “retire” early and quit our W2 jobs would it make more sense to invest 100% of cash flow back into the principal to quicker achieve full ownership of properties? Or what about making the cash flow work for you in better ways? Thoughts?

[Michael Baum]

Or increase your holdings by leveraging existing properties to buy more properties thus increasing cashflow.

A paid off property is nice, but if you want to quite the W2's, then more properties cash flowing allow that to happen faster.

You could come up with a graduated plan. Put more monthly on the first home while buying others, pay it off, then the 2nd etc all the while increasing the number of properties.