Last year was a good year for my business and between student loans, medical, and a small amount of consumer debt, we paid off a whopping $34k in debt in about 13months and stashed about $10k in savings.

But then again, with a house hack, any subsidy to your primary residence can give you increased cash to stash, tax advantages, etc. so that you can more quickly get to your next investment property than if you were just living in a retail SFH.  

Cash flow in the short term would be nice and allow us to live a little better life style theoretically but in all actuality I’d probably stash the cash to buy more properties.

We are a year or so away from purchasing an investment property and will be stashing money away until then.

I didn’t find it in time.The safer option that will make me a less qualified loan candidate for a while: Quit my job, live rent-free for a few months (thanks Mom and Dad) while I get my real estate license, move to Denver (and rent), get a job as an agent, use my stash of cash to live off of for a while until the commission checks start to roll in, HUSTLE, HUSTLE, sleep, HUSTLE for as long as it takes to kill it and become an attractive loan candidate again.The yeah right option: buy a shoebox in the Bay Area that would force me to burn ALL of my free cash on a down payment then rent it out to (hopefully) cover the mortgage then pray nothing went wrong (Did someone say earthquake?).

Should I take this excess cash and pay this down to get rid of that monthly payment or should I put it into consolidate it with the rest of my RE investing stash and move on to my next building?  

Without going into details I may not be able to make a purchase on my own in investment property for the next 24 months.  In 24 months I will need to have access to the cash to invest.  Any ideas on what to do with th...

My initial plan is to stash as much cash as possible till July 2019, when I plan to go full-time as a real estate agent with my hubby, who's working towards getting his license.

How much are you going to make if you invest now/when you come home vs. how much are you going to make in a savings acct or wherever you are stashing the savings. 

Also, I have very little capital at the moment but I anticipate being able to stash some cash away in the time that I'm researching (I have no debt other than the two houses I own; one is rented and I plan to rent the other when I move out of the US).