I am all for going big but you might have to slow down a little bit.

When I first started real estate investing (before mortgage crisis) I was living in Seattle and most of my friends decided to play the the Seattle appreciation game and forgo cashflow.

I don't know what this dale Hensel did to you guys a link would be good to see what your talking about.but I have personally been funding these DCB class mid west for going on two decades.I like B class and strong C for out of state and D and C are only appropriate for locals .. and have repeated this 1000 times on this site.. of course not many listen some do but not many.But this one takes the cake huge volume and rehab money sent and never spent on the rehab.. and fake leases and getting rent money with no tenants or tenant is paying 400 but they are sending you 700.. all this is just to give the illusion of a safe secure investment or other would say a Ponzi..  

As Duke Ellington observed in one of his songs; "Romance without finance, ain't got a chance."

@David Song I've had good luck working with the local movers in my area to find homes to move into my parks.

@Joshua Dorkin  Thanks for going to bat for the Property Managers out there in "Show 80" with Jonna Weber.

I want to have exit strategies but also incentives for going the full ten years.I know this is very niche and nuanced, so please provide whatever experience/info you have! 

Your job is to lighten their load "Take a load off Annie," as the song says. 

Of course I bought them brand new so that mitigates repairs and of course the reason I bought them was for GO ZONE tax benefits..

Another benefit worth mentioning for going north into Snohomish County is the potential for light rail.