While it's positive after expenses and has potential for improvement in year two, it’s been a bigger hassle than anticipated and taking attention from other priorities and areas of our life with not enough return. 

---You can try to increase your chances of cashflow by buying a beatup property and BRRRing it.2) Buy Class C cautiously.

If you decide to join, take their claims with a pinch of salt and conduct your own due diligence.My experience has not been positive so far, but I am hoping for improvements in the future.

Being that the new property that we buy will become our primary residence and we are buying a fixer upper, how do we get the best tax breaks for the repairs and/or improvements?

I don't know your skin thickness but know I do it with love and care for your improvement, there is no insult meant by any of it but fact is we all gotta suck, learn and try again before we get great, right. 

I have about $5k in a credit card and another $5k in a home improvement loan because I had to replace my AC condenser after purchasing my primary last year.

I’ll share those here when I get a chance.  

As I take in the advice from Charles, Joshua and now you, sharing your insights, looking at smaller deals might give me the chance to still syndicate while building a track record and achieving proven success.

I hope you do get a chance to visit, because despite all things, the falls are certainly a sight to see! 

. $10k in debt does not seem like it is worth filing bankruptcy as you also will have the filing fees to file bk and if you use an attorney it could be another $5k, To me if you can save $10,000 a year then start saving and pay off that debt, as filing bk will hurt your credit wehere paying off these debts will improve your credit.