Instead, You get to use the tax for your own benefit and purchase better property/ properties.

As noted, if your options are Reg D, private offering vs fully registered public offering, even if you are talking Pink Sheet (OTC) stocks, you have public filing costs, annual audit requirements, and likely more on-going expenses that have to be covered by the property(s) owned by the offering.  

These two demographics are projected to be long term renters which will help keep vacancy rates low for years to come.In recent years, Pittsburgh has become a tech hub in its own right, attempting to create a dynamic job market similar to Silicon Valley.

You don’t have to figure that out on your own.

Since you are not a skier, a home or cabin that is close with its own hot tub and other stuff sounds great You can do much more with a home than a condo.

OwnerRez, which i use, has their own product for guest damage.

On another note; how do you get accurate data on flipping success rates when for a very vast array of them, it's not reported or substantiated anywhere?

The 2/5 year still applies no matter how long you have owned the house.

We are currently own our home which we bought about 1.5 years ago (numbers below).

Some of the properties I own were at one time not great cash flow properties.