We plan to stay in this house for more than 5 years unless another great opportunity arises, but maybe it is best to allocate a bigger portion of savings to our real estate investment savings account than our home improvement savings account for the first few years.

It seems like anyone can post anything without accountability—very concerning.  

We need to account for both in this analysis. 

Where I am running into an issue is there is a delinquent account on my credit history.

I do the same for my LTRs, tenants have to get their own utility accounts and they are fully responsible.

Please speak with your tax accountant asap or find a 1031 intermediary asap.

@Ashley Kehr I use a combination of Apartments.com for rent collection, RentSpree for tenant and background screening, and Stessa for accounting.

Quote from @Sam Wilson: We invested via a retirement account.

There are also additional costs of operating and maintaining an LLC, like separate bank accounts, annual report filings, tax filings, etc.2.

Account holders can't take any write-offs personally for investments made in the 401k.