Especially now that home values are about to increase again, mostly in part to lower rates as of last week and still lower to come after the election and into 2025.As these mortgage rates continue to drop further it will cause more buyers to come off of the side line putting in offers. 

I paid off almost 6,000 in a high interest credit card , The next day my credit score dropped 90 points. 

This is the swap till you drop method. 

New permit applications have now dropped.  

I don't live near the property so I can't just drop in. 

Hello William,I think that if I look back at the houses I flipped, we would have made infinitely more money if we had held on to some of them and gone with the rental route.Today, DSCR roans are starting to come in under 6%, at my company our lowest DSCR Rates are 5.3%, and I expect them to continue to drop. 

Refinanced in 2017 roughly to drop PMI, lower interest rate and add my then wife to the mortgage.Selling for 287k in August of 2024I know that I won't have to pay capital gains tax on the profits- my question is the profit from the sale still treated like income and taxed accordingly?

But the real sweet part of it is that the rise in price stayed way up there and lumber dropped back down.. so we made it and continue to make a better profit on the last 30 houses..

Sat on market for 4 months before they dropped to $125k.

If your rate is higher simply refinance it if rates drop and just save all those “aggressive payments” to then invest with. $170,000ish should be plenty to help you buy your first rental maybe less and then you can get started faster than the timeline of spending 1.5 years paying off your mortgage first.