Although my wallet is financially free, my life and living and breathing isn’t free, it costs a lot for us to have that.I sure wish money did set me free but it doesn’t, it merely provides me with just a very beneficial lifestyle.

Cost" is more than just mere money.Cost could also be measured in time, stress, effort, and headaches.

Or maybe even all of them if you have such a strong belief in real estate and are ready to put all of your eggs in one basket.However, doing it based on taxes is short-sighted.And if you are selling merely in order to raise cash - there're multiple ways to finance your real estate purchases.

I tend to agree that though I seek the income/cash flow to be FI it is merely for the cushion.

If you are intending on putting most of your cash into a property merely to negate having to get a loan, you better have a sound plan for the cap ex that comes with that property.

In court, the tenant is merely fighting to recover the amount of the security deposit. 

Think of appreciation in real estate as being the same as picking individual stocks in the market, and that'll give you an idea of how to approach it (for us mere mortals anyway.) 

First, from a technical legal standpoint (sorry I've been doing this a long time), presumptions are rebuttable meaning that their mere presence does not actually prove anything.

One one of my posts, I was merely saying that the market always sets a certain price that it is willing to pay at any given time.

Now, this makes me re-think my decision.