When calculating that into your analysis you’ll see that can eat up your profit real quick.

Trying to have my cake and eat it too by paying off the mortgage and having that comfort or largest expense being gone, and still being able to scale rental properties with the liquidity of the all in one.

@Richard Bautista Out of state Section 8 rentals is a transactional fee collector where everyone eats except for the owner.

Sometimes they find a renter that will sign a lease for a high amount only for the renter to default leaving the owner eating the vacancy. 

I don't eat out a lot or go on fancy vacations (I do travel), I don't buy a new car every 4-5 years (I do keep it up, but my first car was ~20 years old when I traded it in this spring). 

RE is a lot more active and involved, even if you hire a PM and a GC which BTW eats up your returns.

i would use steel wool in any holes then caulk over that so they will not want to eat that.

There is a lot of misconceptions still, about what it is, how it is mined and how it could penetrate daily lives even more than the internet did and does. 100k is the low end...Mcafee ( the security software guy) is a coin miner and says that he bets bitcoin hits 1 million by 2020 or he will eat his own private parts.

with that said, should you increase your down payment to mask flaws in an otherwise terrible deal - an alligator that will eat you alive with deferred maintenance that is in a worse neighborhood than you think, but an agent sold you on it because it has new countertops? 

The best advice on this topic, in my opinion, comes from 2 books:How to win friends and influence peopleNever eat aloneI am also looking for brokerages to work with or even experienced shadow / intern for to gain experience and additional knowledge.