Thus my equity in my home I fought so hard to keep is gone and my dreams of investing in rentals is dashed.  

You have probably read it over and over again in the books that say get out there buy that first property but I will tell you that real estate investing is less of a 100 yard dash, and more of a marathon. 

And you have the potential of avoiding tax on every sale.Unless you're an adrenaline junky (which I get because we all have that drive to create) the old slow and steady buy and hold is the way to wealth. 

“Breath Mike, breath…” He is awake and conscious, but clearly running on adrenalin.

Palm Springs banned Vacation Rentals on multi-family properties with 4+ units, and my hopes were dashed. 

We were in shock and obviously still to this moment we don't know what that offer is.The mad dash to get everything together finally kicked off and in retrospect we should've gotten this done much sooner.

The adrenaline rush alone is worth the efforts! 

Let me start by saying I am new to this and even though I have been educating myself as much as possible; I might not recognize a good deal if it clipped me in the head with a sledge hammer. I may be equally as likely...

We'll take your suggestions and review them when we get to the dash changes -- I think they are great!

If your intention is to scale up and live off the passive income, at some point you realize you've traded your day job for a PM job and your dreams of living off passive income are dashed.