Especially CA folks who are so in tuned to RE and owning RE as you know look at all the CA investors that flock to the mid west and rust belt to buy rentals.

Great reason for not pulling deductions forward.I have been retired from a W2 job for some time and my income is at an all time high and will just keep going up with more RE investments. 

I tried RE Investing many years ago before the internet and miraculously did not loose my shirt but broke even on one house and due to other circumstances was forced to walk away from another.

@Andrew Kiel: Re: "With one small exception on VA loans, there is no getting around the due on sale clause" What have you run into with VA loans?

-RE prof is a bit trickier. 

You cannot close an RE purchase or sale without using an RE attorney.

@Andreas Mathews admirable, but make sure you do some research so you understand what a PM can make.Starting your own PMC business will require 75-150 doors to make a decent living, depending on gross rents and your fee structre.Working for a SFR PMC as a PM, will require a RE license and you usually get paid a percentage of the gross rents the portfolio of owners/properties you manage generates.

Many would suggest against RE investing using retirement money but if you go into low risk opportunities it can be a powerful diversification method.

I cannot see a scenario here where he is better off re-levering to enter if he can't weather a shorter time frame; and if he can weather one, then he has the funds to put a downpayment outright on a  2nd.

None of this never happened.For a company with a 12-year lending history, Norada Capital Management has only one $4,000,000 Reg D filing from 2020, which appears inadequate considering a 2012 start date and almost four years since the last filing.Santarelli also claims in the same YouTube video that Norada Capital Management has been making loans since 2012 with no default history, re-lending money received from investors and maintaining a perfect record over 12 years.