I tossed LEED in favor of Energy Star as it seems easier to achieve.

You must have achieved return significant to cover selling cost.  

Additionally, finding a mentor who's achieved success in buy-and-hold investing can be incredibly valuable.

In general, the 100 hours tends to be the easiest to achieve but if you have 101 hours tracked and the IRS discredits 2, now you cannot offset the W-2 as planned.

Can't you achieve $1350/mo or more by turning half of it into a long-term rental?

The income is the same, the difference is how hard you work to achieve it.Parting thought, I also purposefully lag the top of the rental market in my personal portfolio...if a property I have owned for 4 years was rented at $900 and has a good resident then even though the value of that property may be $1250 I am still going to put this specific resident at $1050 so both the resident and my portfolio are winners each year and we have incentive to keep it that way.

We always want more, bigger, longer etc.Congrats on what you have achieved!

From there, here are some questions you should ask to narrow down who you think may be a good fit for the results you are looking to achieve as an investor.Two important things to remember.

We start by looking at a prospective client’s current facts, activity, and complexity in combination with an understanding of what they’re looking to achieve.

The loans can be good options, though, if you are trying to achieve a lower blended rate or streamline your mortgage payment by just having one payment as opposed to several.