But I CASHFLOW, and I am surrounded by nice neighborhoods (the icing on top).My next goal is to pay off all my St.

If the local laws do not, then I think there is a whopper story here and the racial angle is icing on the cake.Delinquent tax payments are IMO best addressed exactly how they usually are, with penalties and interest, not foreclosure.

Kind of an ice breaker. 

So when the time comes, I'm not completely reliant on the real estate market...it's just icing on the cake. 

The path shall be thoroughly cleared of snow and ice.

Parker Steele There is a glitch in your plan, finding a commercial gc for you to be a project engineer is challenging, and adding to cater residential sector puts an icing on the top, simply because they don’t need a project engineer.

Try:1 - running out of money2 - needing to work harder at your job to pay for someone else to live in your house3 - bleeding your seed money you could use for future investments...there's more, but it just gets worse.Buying a cash flow property with negative cash flow, is like a hockey team starting the game out by spotting the other team a goal...and every period spotting them another goal. 

My goal is cash-flow with appreciation being 'icing on the cake.' 

More crime, more grime, scraping ice off your car every morning and blasting the defroster, slipping and sliding in your 2 wheel drive, these are the realities of a lot of the midwest cities that are "good cashflow". 

If you’re ok shelling out whatever it costs to repair burst pipes or ice dams with all its associated damage or you’re going to rely wholly on insurance or you only plan to hold the property for a very short period of time then use all your capital for investing.