However, by placing money in a property that I would like to have in order to increase my quality of life, that can also produce some cash flow instead of being a liability that requires money every month, I can increase my quality of life without increasing my monthly liabilities.  

Start by leveraging what you already have—consider tapping into equity through a HELOC, house hacking again with an FHA loan, or increasing cash flow by converting a unit to a short-term rental.

It has gotten increasingly frustrating to deal with inadequacies and complaints from my tenants as far as payment processing.

Palm Coast, while not as flashy as Miami, is indeed growing rapidly, with increasing interest from higher-income professionals and retirees.

This would greatly increase cash flow and create equity.

Higher assets or cash in the bank increases what is called you compensating factors which banks/lenders use to qualify.

Greatly increased lending capital by transitioning from a ‘blind pool” fund to a series LLC / syndication model where investors know the property lending deal before committing to any loan and can “pick and choose” whichever loans they do or do not want to participate in.  

My estimation was with leverage I could do about 7 homes a year and each year after it would increase. 

Historically, the average days on market (DOM) for rental properties only increases by about 6 days during November and December.

Rents , cash flow and appreciation increase over time.