I'd like to add that for anyone else wanting an to convert their primary property one day build good relationships with your neighbors in the mean time.

It's great you want to optimize your property management on your first two, but you should also optimize the properties themselves before looking to buy anything else.

At one time they were trying to figure out how  to finance a $10,000,000 roofing and siding project but got bogged down with attorneys and all the mess that goes along with a project that size.

Maybe I need to budget more for tenant default, vacancy, maintenance, or something else. 

Just cause you hear sex offender dont mean that he goes around messing with kids.

Changing jobs to become a PM, partnering up with other people to buy a lot of units together, something else entirely?  

No one else can answer that question for you. 

At the time my rate was like 4% and now it’s 10% so agreed with everyone else I wouldn’t do it for long term stuff, but then again I know people who do and it doesn’t seem to bother them so I guess it’s more how comfortable you feel. 

Don't worry about what everyone else is doing.

We love where we live, have the space we need for our newborn, and have someone else paying for our assets.