Now let's compound that natural advantage by fact your from TX.

Why isn't anyone doing it?

Different phases of the journey I guess :)By starting with self-management, I definitely learned to appreciate what the PM was doing for me.

Oversimplifying it just a bit, the investor profits from:- a non-refundable option paid by the tenant-buyer which gives them the right to purchase the property within their option period- the spread between the rent paid by the investor to the property owner and the rent paid to the investor by the tenant-buyer over the life of the option- the spread between the price ultimately paid by the investor when they exercise their option with the owner and the price ultimately paid by the tenant-buyer when they exercise their option with the investorClear as mud?

Actually, it is possible do structure a 1031 Exchange on the sale of one or more relinquished properties and then using the proceeds through the 1031 Exchange to construct improvements on real property you already own.

The rate might be .5% higher for the 30 year, but looking at it financially what if you took that $187/mo and invested it into the stock market at 7-9% returns? 

I think it was written by @Nathan Gesner, a property manager from Wyoming. 

We have an app now in beta that will soft launch by end of year!

But if you have to make up time, so to speak, it's hard to do without using leverage.

By the time I reach 20% equity (likely 3+ years away), my monthly mortgage payment will come down when I refinance, but $600 is a big hit to the numbers.