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You can either buy an existing property or flip a building and then rent it out.

Additionally, I’ll have the ability to pull equity out in the future to keep expanding my portfolio.Given my growing real estate holdings, should I even worry about my Roth 401(k)?

Then I'd push those factors out if there were no good comps.  2 miles, 6 months.  2 miles 12 months , etc.It takes some local knowledge to know when you're pushing those parameters out too far to be useful. 

Hi BP, I am interested in invest out of state and these are the three metro area that I am looking into: San Antonio, Austin or OKC area. 

Fatal mistake to buy that on the forward curve.My recommendation would be to get out of this position; the STR is in an extremely oversaturated market and the underlying asset is a clone of many.

Hello,Not sure if this is the right place for this question (if not, please let me know and I will correctly post).I currently rent out 2 homes.

I plan to buy a new property in May by putting 5% down and renting out my current home.

So, you can do a land contract for 12 months, which should allow lender to credit you full value of the land vs the purchase price, but the loan will pay off the land contract, so the lender maintains first lien position.Can't help you with the rest of your question, but you should be able to search for "CPA" here on BP to find experts to reach out to.

They should do a cash out refinance or a HELOC when rates go down to tap the equity.