It also might be wise to wait a few months while paying down debt to see if this global trade war hammering the stock market will spell the end of appreciating real estate in the USA in 2018.It does not matter how much you are sending in on your student loan. 

The global flexibility provided by Bitcoin is grossly under appreciated. 

When the event happens, scaling to the point of leaving the day job to managing a decent portfolio of buy hold rentals for consistent passive income.My current line of work is in the coffee industry, managing and developing teams globally for a specialty coffee company and more or less living on the road as I help launch cafes from New York to Kyoto.  

That was the result of a global economic meltdown due to a perfect storm.

Buying money is not investing unless it is done on the money market.Equity reduces cash flow from the property turning the brick and mortar into a liability not a asset.The biggest mistake, so call investors make, is in not recognising that every property has two distinct income streams that must be accounted for separately.  

For the long-term generational investors who also subscribe to the global warming and shortage of fresh water predictions, WI will become the prime real estate on the planet in that scenario - lol.

Currently a VP in Global Fraud for Citibank, working from home.

It looks likes a global trade war that will raise prices across the board just started here in March of 2018, so sell sell sell is the best option if you believe that the drop in consumer discretionary spending will leave less money in people's pockets leading to a recession and/or downturn in real estate values. 

At the moment (short of a national/global black swan type event) I see more of the same in the next years, just even more accelerated.

The banks are going to look at your global cash flow to make their decision.