I'll always love it on some level but one can't truly retire or relocate freely with RE yet selling it comes with a massive tax hit. 

It's true that it's growng and if you speak spanish and like friendly people from across the border who freely walk across your property, it's for you. 

I hope that at my funeral no one would talk about my 'financial success' but how I gave freely of my time, took their calls, and wanted to follow Jesus (not trying to be preachy, but it's the truth).

and that info is freely available all over the place.

It’s especially unhelpful because there are many people trying to fleece inexperienced investors.I agree it is easy to forget what you didn't know when you started, but at the same time with all the online resources that are freely available, it just takes a bit of time of a newbie doing a search for a topic and reading through what they find.  

If income grows faster than rent then the home appreciation can still accelarate rapidly especially when city inventory is reducing....Also the very basic component of home appreciation is money being circulated and not primarily the income in that area.

So the shiftless, the homeless, and the crackheads that the city allows to freely run amok happily tear up the property.  

A/C is to remove moisture (perspiration major cause) such the air circulation provides some heat removal from your body.

Aside from that if we allow people like that to act freely here this place will become a **** show and the information will not be worth much as one cannot trust it.

Simply put, if you are going to allow for the freedom that the US Constitution gives, you have to accept that some portion of the population will use that freedom to live in a manner that prevents them from being sheltered, either voluntarily or as a result of decisions freely made.