My coworker notified me yesterday that his neighbor would be listing soon (they are aiming for September 15), and if I was interested in moving a bit quicker, he would make some introductions for me before they list.

So if you did move from the property later on the taxes would kick in and drastically reduce your cash flow and other financial measures.

And you can’t really measure value by suburb in this part of town since it’s so “street-by-street.”

If you reckon that you NEED an added unit to rent out, do you really think that the cost of buying your forever-duplex will be EASIER in 8 years time, even given your planned "low ROI" interim investments that are aimed at starting your equity-ball rolling?

So there for all of a sudden you have the measuring stick go way up.. 

Jesse, my post was not aimed at you at all, rather to @Jay Hinrichs who likely knows the individual I am referring to who has filled our forums with a bunch of garbage.

My first property was a turnkey from Morris Invest, and I aim to look at the BRRRR method for a few of my next few properties.  

Aim for win-win.

There are so many benefits and drawbacks to investing in your local market and just as many benefits and drawbacks to investing in a ton of different places in the US.I think to help limit the context of this conversation, you may want to quantify some of the variables of this question, to help aim answers.For example:1. 

I'm a number cruncher as well,  I always like to measure Cash on Cash Return, that's my fav number :) What is your key metric?