If you can find something that nets enough income to cash flow OVER your mortgage payment while you're living there, then you're golden.

You can do both, but this is just my opinion, focus on your career first that ultimately be your golden door to be able to get great/large loans with a very good interest rates/deals and invest accordingly! 

I would never sell the goose that lays the golden egg!

At that point I’d love to have a RE business established that they can jump into, and by the time I retire I’d love to have 500+ units to carry us through our golden years which they can completely take over and grow even more when we are gone.

It was a golden time for this area, and the people here seized the moment when building their SFRs.One big historical reason was the coal. 

Your position is golden and the sky is the limit. 

Forget your question, I'm trying to figure out why you'd want to offload the goose's golden egg. 

Bet we’ll be seeing a lot of LLC unwinding happening real soon in the golden state!

But others say that’s golden.

Cant evict.....can be pissed off....but cant legally evict based on this.Honor the cash for keys....don't even let the tenant know that the sale fell through IF it does..... better that they don't know..... act like all is golden and good to go.