Personally I have never been a fan of pre-tax accounts (401Ks and IRAs) because I feel like they constrain my ability to invest in the assets I want, so another consideration you may have is to temporarily stop those investments to save faster for your house.

I have been invested with MAG on a single asset deal and a fund for several years. 

Thank you for your time. not having hte capital and no other assets to secure the property for a fix and flip is going to extremely challenging.

If so, it would seem like selling all and scaling up to a nice multi-family asset might be a good option to look into.

A cost segregation study looks at a property you own to breakdown the various assets you purchased.The goal is to increase the depreciation expense by finding assets that have an asset life less than 27.5(residential) or 39 years(non-residential).Whether you should get a cost segregation study done is whether you will benefit from the study.Will you be able to use the added depreciation now or in the near future?

From a tax perspective, we have both section 1245 and 1250 assets.

Yes you are borrowing it, but if the asset can support it, wouldn't you rather have an investment with no cash investment making positive cash flow vs. an asset that has your money tied up making a slightly higher cash flow?

I can't think of any other asset class where you'll find gains like this.

Perhaps not a trend to consider across the city but any neighborhood that would attract college educated young professional families seems to be a good bet if you wanted to focus on this asset type.I plan to build 12 townhomes as a second phase of a condo/townhome project in a good area of Mount Airy near the Chestnut Hill boarder and even though I’m likely to years away from being ready to begin phase 2, my current plans are to keep the 12 homes as rentals for the precise reasons I outlined above.  

a preapproval letter or if a cash deal proof of assets