With that being said, if you're comfortable with a long term hold, San Diego and especially coastal, will always be attractive imo. 

Get out of your comfort zone.

It’s better to have less rooms and to have them large enough to comfortably fit a queen bed.

It’s worth looking into now to get ahead of it, but also depends on your comfort level and goals.

City cool beans or country relaxation station?

I pushed back on the idea of an up front transaction fee of 10K and told him that I'd be happy to pay a transaction fee at closing, but wouldn't feel comfortable paying 10K without it being tied to an acquisition.

Get out of your comfort zone.

My wife not comfortable putting our house as equity, therefore we are utilizing other options to fund investment properties. 

So after being laid off a few times in the last 8 years I decided to get back into investing but this time focusing on buy and hold multi family real estate so that I could built wealth that could help me retire my wife who just had a long battle with cancer and survived , but is now back to work, and I want to give her a relaxing life free of all the stress of the world (by the way did I mention she is also in the mortgage lending field) so that explains the urgency to retire her from w-2 work ! 

Whether it’s Christmas morning or a regular weekday, acting quickly can be the difference between closing a deal and losing it to someone else.The holidays often feel like a time to slow down and relax, but in real estate, urgency wins.