Not beyond difficult people to say their gold stash is missing after you were in the home. 

Valued at 450k. so I feel like we have a situation where we should take out as much cash as possible against the rentals stash it aside to use as a down payment on another investment property since we won’t be moving anytime soon and won’t have the benefit of buying our next property with a primary residence mortgage. money is cheap now and to keep cash flow at 750/month abd put 50k in a reserve account just makes sense to me.

A 3 year lease is more or less a bad idea anyway - you have no idea what happens in the next 3 years, and you are the only one really at risk since you can sue a broke joker for non-performance but you'll be unlikely to collect.

Flipping if you need to build your current stash of cash.

I’d sure love to buy now but I’m stashing about $1,300 a month right now for down payment, closing and moving costs. 💪🏼  

Creative Financing is great and can help you scale if you can get the deal flow, however if you are stashing away an extra 3-4k/ month traditional financing might be a quicker route for you.

Add to that $30K stash (there's no correct amount that's needed and nothing to keep you from moving ahead with that amount today.... but it's always easier with some buffer right?)

Even if I just took that $17k and stashed it in the S&P500 index for the next 30 years and never bought another rental, at an annual 8% return I'd make $170k, more than covering the additional interest paid.  

I've stashed enough money and been working on everything in the back end to be able to purchase my first property this year before my 25th birthday. 

We can then take the downpayment we've stashed away and look for other opportunities, or bet on the market cooling off and try to find an affordable ski in/ski out property.Would love to hear any and all advice, particularly if you have any local knowledge!