While paying down the mortgage sooner has its merits, it's crucial to weigh this against alternative investment opportunities.Regarding upgrading to a property with better cash flow/appreciation potential, it's challenging to surpass the cash flow of a quadruplex unless venturing into commercial assets.

I was completely caught off guard by the response from the DOT about consulting with them sooner. 

You'll find them in greasy spoon diners in the morning and the gold circuit gym class.  

FYI we've changed our approach entirely and have lower fee initial entry points to avoid the challenges of long term project based arrangements so we can catch issues much sooner.

So if a draw is late, or I need it sooner, I have a reserve set aside.

From my perspective I would collect rent as long as I can and when that doesn't make sense anymore I would sooner sell it then pay to tear it down. 

Let's say you total all of the applicable 15 year or sooner life assets up on a $500,000 home and come up with $50,000 of 15 year or sooner property. 

Federal guidelines do not allow loans like this to be refinanced sooner than 90 days I'm told.

With the VA loan, although this is not an initial investment property I intend to make it one sooner or later.

The sooner it's sold, the sooner you can move on to the next big thing, right?