Hello All, I am currently going through growing pains in my knowledge of investing in real estate, for the past 12+ years i have bought 7 properties as primary residences when i would switch duty stations along my career.

can be a pain, especially if you have the french door fridges!

@Ben Kirchner I feel your pain with home warranty companies!

It's a pain but it is another set of eyes on the building progress. 

So frustrating and time consuming and painful to have to go through the damage. 

I'm not sure what is the best way to do this without causing myself pain from a tax standpoint. 

If you do go, it's because you have a sick relative somewhere who needs to see you before they go on to glory -- the best kind of story for that is an expensive one, like a blind half-brother with a rare blood disease who is only free of constant pain in this one remote high-altitude institute in the Cascades...something so outlandish no one would make it up that at the same time implicitly explains why you need the rent checks to be on time.

The whole idea is to create pain for you if you don't proceed.

The only debt we have is the mortgages (2 rentals and our primary residence) so we're really battling psychology on whether it feels better to have zero debt moving forward or the cash flow from continuing to own rentals. 

It is becoming a real pain.