Most also fail to understand the exclusions within an insurance policy. 

Building reserves for emergencies and creating other contingency arrangements is also a good idea.When I retired I already knew that I had more than enough to retire because I had already been living more than 10 years exclusively on my rental cash flows and building reserves for retirement.

These young adults who are currently filling up apartments will eventually start building families and will be looking for single family housing.

@Mark Pruitt We almost exclusively use River Ridge Escrow in Cedar Rapids, closer Melissa.

A home that is selling for $100k after we just saw the biggest run up in real estate values in my adult lifetime means that it's probably not a very desirable place to live for people that have options.

There seems to be three lines of thinking (they are not mutually exclusive) about how to make better than risk adjusted returns in real estate investing.1. buy and hold while price appreciation, FUTURE cash flow, and loan amortization increase the investors wealth2. market timing - load up during market recessions, liquidate during market booms3.

You can also list non exclusive with agents and then if you find a tenant yourself dont pay commision. 

Can anyone verify the tax treatment as of today that a gain from owner occupant unit is applicable for Sec 121 exclusion, and a gain from rental unit is applicable for 1031 exchange?

DSCR loans are not mutually exclusive to the BRRRR strategy.

Understandable during the days of yore when all the data was exclusively held on the MLS and you needed agents to get access to reliable information.