I may have lost all my money and my car, but I can hang my head high knowing that I did it.I completed two flips 2,000 miles away without any prior experience.After every dark night, a brighter day appears.

The only place this would appear to make sense is in Class D neighborhoods which could cash flow.You have rights to income but nothing else - sounds like an unsecured note at the end of the day.Chris you make good points.  

You don't appear to have a specific goal, so I wouldn't move the money unless you can put it in a better investment.Portland is not a great investment area.

The appearance of these conflicts is the exact reason we have chosen not to set up a separate maintenance company.4) As others have said some of these might be security deposit issues.Best,Rick  

Every system you try will have flaws, or you may salivate over a feature that appears in other software.

It does not appear that many newbies (or experienced) investors are buying much (transaction levels are at record lows). 

Sometimes the market changes or can't absorb the rents that they want, so they issue concessions to make it appear as if it's performing as intended.

I ask because it appears I can make this work by rotating occupancy throughout the 12m between my old primary (now refi'd to an investment property) and the new primary.

If you offer more $ for the property than the all cash offers AND you appear to the seller to be highly qualified in the method you are using for sourcing the payment, at some point your offer will be more appealing than the all cash offers.I don't understand why you would consider a 1031 for another property in two years. 

Education on real estate appears to be a much better business than real estate itself.