Imagine making millions of dollars over the course of your career and then having to pay 30-50% every year to uncle sam instead of compounding that cash over time.This is exactly what real estate professionals have learned to mitigate.To reduce their taxable income, they just buy a building every year, do a cost seg, and use depreciation to reduce their tax liability dramatically.Their personal wealth snowball grows much larger and much faster than their W2 counterparts who give most of their money back to the government each year.Following this strategy as a real estate professional is one of best ways to end up with a much larger net worth at the end of your career.

It seems I could scale my portfolio faster with an appreciation focus.Does anyone have any thoughts or recommendations on this?

Quote from @Karen Smith: With more investors turning to private money lenders for faster funding, what benefits have you seen from using private financing versus traditional bank loans? 

Learnt lesson not to fully depend on property manager and should have made decision faster by reducing rent .

- Yes, it does take more time to schedule this:(--- Our FieldTechs do have sets of locks our locksmith has pre-keyed, so we can "rekey" a property faster.

Oakland has some ambitious plans to improve the city, and as rate improves, I firmly believe certain parts of Oakland will recover faster than others.

If you’re open to it, bringing in investors with clear terms could help you leverage your strong track record and deal flow to expand faster.

This particular project is running late and now of course I'd like to get done faster. 

And you get feedback at a level high enough to determine how to proceed. 

The power move for faster growth and scalability.