Same tax situation and more likely higher potential to appreciate faster.

While permits for ULS may take up to 1.5 years, MDUD projects can proceed faster, provided all requirements are met.Let’s break down the numbers for San Ysidro, a promising area for development.

Managing syndications is a business, just like any other, and requires the same level of dedication for it to be successful long-term.But it gets better over time. 

If the answer is yes, then it's a no brainer to make minimum payments on your 2.8% interest rate mortgage, and use the funds that you would have paid extra to pay it down faster, to either invest in more real estate, the market, or anywhere else where you can get a ROI > 2.8%.If the answer is no, then feel free to aggressively pay it down as fast as possible, to become debt-free faster, and just have a large amount of money in savings or to splurge with.The bottom line is that your 2.8% mortgage is GOOD debt.

Hey Adam keep grinding - it sure does take a village but each property you get the more you'll make and the faster the process goes. 

Additional costs will creep in and costs seem to go up faster than rents, so I would sell and try to otherwise optimize the VA loan. 

Selling and exploring a 1031 exchange could make sense if you can find a deal with stronger cash flow or faster equity growth, but the key is comparing your current return to what your skill and experience could generate in another investment.Here to help,Jorge

Even the funding alone is easier since you now have a cash flowing property that can help you fund your seed money faster. 

Even if PS had 100% accuracy, it wouldn't matter.It is about whether or not these people are motivated and I promise you 99.9% of these people PS will feed you are NOT motivated.So you should be thankful you only have a 20% success rate getting contact info, because if they gave you 100% contact info you would go bankrupt MUCH faster sending all these people mailers.Nothing can target motivated sellers, NOTHING can.

I used to cold call, skip trace, send mailers, and don't get me wrong you will get success from it like James above, however as you gain experience you will realize you need deals faster, easier, cheaper, and with more "meat on the bones" and in order to have that you need constant deals flowing through your eco system and that's hard to do with mailers, cold calls, VA's and skip tracing etc.