Out-of-state is more ideal once you have gained experience.

This ensures any future equity gains benefit only you and allows you to control the property fully.Buying a Third Home: Using proceeds from the rental home's sale to buy another house hack and renting out your current home entirely could generate substantial rental income.

Any email with exotic in the title caught my attention.  

Gains me more equity and my end loan is less which gives me more cash flow. 

You likely still would owe capital gains tax on these. 

I can only assume that our insurance company would not want to cover damages and such should something happen a house with tenants and a primary residence policy in place. but I haven't really gotten far into the weeds on the particulars of that. if you have gained any insight to that I would greatly appreciate the knowledge.

After reading several articles and comments, Section 8 has caught my attention for various reasons.

We come across a lot of owners super frustrated with their current manager and the main issue seems to be communication, on top of cleaning/maintenance and lack of attention to detail.

Pay particular attention to the yards, driveways, and exteriors for clues.

Is this possible to delay or nix capital gains?