Focus on cities with favorable price-to-rent ratios, population growth, and employment trends, such as Des Moines, Oklahoma City, and Charlotte, while considering factors like landlord-friendliness and property taxes.

The single biggest advantage of selling your homestead is that you can take all the Cap gain tax free if you have lived in the home as your homestead for 2 of the last 5 years. 

As you alluded to, sometimes a passive note investment purchased for monthly payments “goes south”, and becomes an active participation investment, with plenty of additional capital required for legal fees, forced place insurance, and property taxes.  

- Look into if property taxes are reassessed after purchase.

The seller may not want to do this, as many of these guys are benefiting from the tax deferral which comes with NOT moving title over.

.- 1031 exchange opportunity: I could potentially do a 1031 exchange to acquire a duplex or triplex, deferring taxes.- Access to funds: I could consider a cash-out refinance or a HELOC to access funds for additional investments.- which property would you recommended me to keep? 

We now live in Arizona and I frequently fly back to the southeast to repair or inspect the properties and already deduct the travel, lodging, and half of the meal expenses from my taxes. 

This is the BEST $100 you will ever spend, and if you listen to Amanda Han's tax book, you'll know it's also likely a business expense for you to write off :) https://biggerpockets.supercast.com/My perfect way to learn from the BP books is to listen to the audio book through the subscription above, then books that really stand out to me I go old school and get the physical copy so that I can re-read it, take notes in the margins, and put post it notes so key points are easier for me to re-reference in the future.

Working on large-scale data is great b/c sometimes it's all about how many owners you approach daily; the issue with over-the-top details is also getting lost in targeting specific owners and situations, aka focusers/tax liens, etc.

(This is what we do, no upkeep,  and we love the 10% down, plus cash flow, principal deduction and tax write offs) Some of our investors use their SDIRA or 401(k) or pension to do this.4.