If I have to use every dollar I have access to and drain my life savings dry, so be it.

Most who make $500k don't have nearly enough dry powder on the sideline to scale a real estate business quickly enough without making huge personal sacrifices for an extended period of time.

Paid off my primary when it got down to 90K.... not a ton of loan left, so I just paid it off, but still had plenty of $$ to invest in other things...it didnt tap me dry to do it.Exactly. 

They are either landlocked or the road leading to it and often than land itself sits inside a dry creek bed known as an arroyo that floods whenever it rains upstream.

Lot had the dry stream water flow going thru the middle.  

These include accidents (I recently had 2 units destroyed by fire), natural disasters (I have had two units each hit by 2 hurricanes), property management turn over (they sell or stop being as good, I have experienced both), or turn over of team (I am turning over at handyman and I suspect plumber), or just wear n tear of property (slab leak in poor location, sewer pipes rotted out (one unit this month), roof, foundation issue, etc.).  

The industrial buy and hold buyers have virtually dried up in San Diego.  

In 2021 we bought the building for $1.5M using private lenders, pushed the occupancy from 50% to 80% occupancy and it appraised for $3.125M, allowing us to pay back the private mortgage.Right now, we are in the predevelopment process of design and piecing together the capital stack for the redevelopment deal, which will be made up of historic tax credit equity, RestoreNY Grant, DRI Grant, etc.

I am at a crossroads on what to do about this one, but hopefully the market saturation from competitor assets in Katy, TX dries up.

Depends on your scenario exactly though, never one cut and dry answer to which is better.