Compare these with potential financing alternatives, like a DSCR loan or other commercial products.Exit Strategy: What’s your long-term plan—hold for cash flow, refinance, or sell?

I’d love to hear how your plans are shaping up!

The way I'm looking at it, if my spouse and I only do employer matching for the 10 years we would have more than enough in there and still 10 years out from being able to access it.I do plan on doing 401k loans for deals if the numbers check out, and I've considered rolling over some of our 401ks into roth IRAs to access our contributions but we'd have to pay taxes out of pocket (a big hit to cash flow) and we couldn't touch it for 5 years.  

This may or may not be true, but either way it sounds like your best move may be a court ordered payment plan.

Buy, even if you don't plan on staying in that 1st house in Cleveland permanently you can just use an FHA loan live there for a year and turn it into a rental afterwards.

You may wish to think about it as an investment and you may plan for it to be an investment in the future, but until it is an investment it ISN'T an investment property. 3.

If you’re working with VA-savvy lenders who are comfortable with your plan and don’t impose stricter rules, you might be able to rinse and repeat as you described.

Have multiple backup plans for any investment.  

Set action plans that your going to strive for ____ and if by __ date plan A fails, you roll too plan B.

The sellers plans to exchange will not affect you or the terms of the sale.