@Joe Michaels, What a lot of investors will do is to use the 1031 exchange as @Michael Plaks said, isto actually "acquire" additional depreciable basis. 

I purchased my first home through NACA to actually live in and I'm curious on how to build my RE portfolio from here.

You'll find that rental property investing isn't scary at all and a great property manager can actually save you more money than they will cost!

Nope......i heard of it on a podcast though.i actually have studied banking and economics for the last year and a half.

How many Due on Sale clauses have you actually seen enforced?

@Diego L.That's actually an interesting situation and a case where revocable trust may make sense.

We feel bad that he did it for free, and he deserves to be paid for his time/effort, but if we pay him, now we have to go back to our tenant several months after the door was fixed and say “actually, we got charged after all, so now we need to pass that cost along to you”.

Is just the fact that no garage could be a no go for some buyers enough to build it even if it only raises the value by the actual cost?

We actually do a real estate investor meetup on the first Saturday of the month in Kihei at South Maui Gardens.

I'm going to guess you've never actually hired another human being to do turnovers for you.