Cash from an exploding market.

Most sellers are listening to their agents who have a very inflated view and/or think when these rates come down we'll list and it'll explode.

It’s a fairly new regulation and as Airbnb and STR have exploded in recent years, the irs agents simply don’t have enough experience with hosts returns, like they do real estate investor LTR returns. 

I wish I could have started buying in 2012 but unfortunately I was a broke college kid and did not know about real estate investing.Personally I still think Columbus is going to continue to explode - "Columbus’ population grew 1.1% in the second half of last year, which is faster than any other city in the U.S." 

Everyone wants to be the rockstar who has bought low and then a couple years later values explode.

We will lose the homestead and that will cause a re-assesment and explode our property tax, but it is what it is.  

Rents shot through the roof as the demand exploded!     

I would certainly take the $80k to reinvest comparing to sitting on the equity over 30 years, but for the sake of my head not exploding with inflated numbers in the future, I wanted to only argue what it would look like to not touch the debt on the property as well. 

I would happily live next to the homes we and other similar operators' run; much better than the guys that have the marshals show up and the house explodes! 

A $20k time bomb just waiting to explode.