Any advice from you pros out there would be like mana from Heaven!

And you'd better actually do the rentals and collect and declare the money because heaven help you if you 1031 into something like that and then get popped for purchasing your primary residence while not declaring rental income and yet depreciating and expensing the residence.A very good creative accountant is a requirement on this one. 

It takes years to build a stairway to heaven.

There is a time frame where renting vs owning is a wash (you can debate that to high Heaven).

To have a decent roof over my head, and growing a scalable asset that helps others is heaven to me.

This comment came form several of my cousins, which, because of the "believes" and particularly in a very conservative setting, we, including myself and cousins, were thought that "rich" people do not have a welcome place in Heaven.... 

Heaven help the rust belt when the shoe falls. 

Harv Eker, and 'How to make a hell of a profit and still get to heaven' by Dr.

All that being said, there is a few drawbacks to calling Dumbf*ckistan home:Gas pricesTaxesGun lawsTaxesAnd taxesAnd more taxesEssentially if it wasn't for the government, California would be absolutely heaven on earth.

He is, however, a sucker for a good paint job and has a hard time seeing past ugly carpet or heaven forbid cabinets that are missing in a house with a kitchen we plan to gut anyway.