My ultimate goal is to build a strong portfolio that will produce enough positive cash flow to supplement my current income in the short term and eventually enable me to quit my 9-5 and focus on investment full time. 

I believe that margin is really the important part, so taking that tax shield into your calculations gives you absolute clarity that could enable you to offer just a smidge more to close a deal.That's my theory anyway...

Based on what you wrote, I believe you have two primary goals.A dependable passive income that outpaces inflation and you will not outlive.Equity accumulation to enable additional investment property purchases minimizing the total capital required.If these are your goals, I recommend following the process illustrated below.In this post, I will only discuss location selection.

I have 100% equity in my investment property and I would like to extract the equity to buy more investment properties.

If another record is found the system automatically notifies the lender through an alert to delay pending further investigation.Most importantly, the tool retrieves the information allowing users to identify the entity or entities perpetrating the potential fraud.It can be used to screen already closed short sale transactions enabling the lender to continue to watch the property for a period of time and generates an alert for any subsequent loan closed on the property, the original short-sale lender and the resale lender.Moreover, it provides post-closing alert notifications, reviews of sale terms for violations, and alerts the new lender about potential for fraud in the dual transactions.Retrospective short-sale analysis helps detect fraud, assess pricing-method accuracy and pinpoint problematic areas to avert future losses.

Enables me to drive by everyday on way to work and back to see what's going on.

Actually they tried to extract pertinent information like what we can offer such investors.

This enabled me to purchase 5 deals over the last 1.5 years.

Setting up keyword alerts for your area will enable you to be notified whenever someone mentions the keyword you chose.

In addition to enabling BP members to view the timestamp on posts in our local time, it would allow everyone to have email notifications waiting for them at breakfast regardless of where in the world they are having breakfast :)