The biggest form of energy production in Tennessee today, nuclear power, simply wouldn't exist without many, many trillions in tax dollars to develop, not to mention the government stepping up to insure and protect the plants, manage and protect the waste for half an eternity, and clean up the trillion dollar mess in case of another disaster.

We lend in about half of the US.

I know that i could buy my next multi family property as a primary residence close by move in, rent half live in the other and than rent where i am now which would cash flow upwards of 1k monthly, or i could buy another multi as strictly an investment property out of state which would be a lot cheaper (taxes and cost of property) and a lot more landlord friendly laws than New York, i guess i’m just undecided on which route i want to take and I’m trying to weigh the pros and cons of each scenario.

In fact I can have half of the rooms occupied and still pay the mortgage. 

It's a competitive market and most of the people that get in trouble here are ones that buy blindly without actually figuring out the numbers, etc.You'd be surprised the number of times I get asked after month one if their electric bill of $xxx or whatever is normal, and the thought running through my head is "how did you not  check things like that before you committed half a million dollars to something?"

Spend more than half of your total working hours in an RE business in which you materially participate.2.

This has created a "shared driveway" with the neighbor making an ugly curb appeal, not to mention cutting their lot in half.

It also doesn't need to be all or nothing.. if you have the ability to save an extra $30k per year, you can save half of that into a brokerage account and the other defer into a Roth 401(k) via MBDR.

on 6 units, the on-going maintenance/cap ex will cut the $4k in half.  

I'm imagining something more like add a wall, turn a bedroom into a kitchen-living on one side and a formal dining room into a bedroom on the other side, maybe add a half bath in each unit.