College can facilitate and accelerate you on your path to finding your dreams, if you're up to the challenge. 

As you can see we are clearly in a seller's market.Milwaukee 2017 YTD: 2.96 (Year To Date)Milwaukee 2018 YTD: 2.17Ozaukee 2017 YTD: 3.58Ozaukee 2018 YTD: 2.98Both markets have tightened up and accelerated, while the number of units sold remained almost identical.

My goal is to accelerate this work and make real estate investing my primary income.

How much faster could you accelerate your path to $50K/year if your cost of capital wasn't 150% higher?  

We accelerated payment and would refi the remaining balance of ~140K

I typically recommend they start self managed because of the accelerated learning that can occur self managing a place as well as the control it offers the new RE investor. 

The value of college is rapidly deterioating, attendance is dropping and costs will only accelerate their growth curves and this will only cause things to worsen when the entire college industry is taken into account. 

We live in a great, working class neighborhood and the prices are accelerating.

If you move out five years later, unit 2 will start depreciating 5 years later.Years ago, they have accelerated 15 year depreciation, and later scrapped.

With the extra cash I was accumulating, it helped me pay down the principal amount on a far more accelerated schedule than passively waiting out the entire 30 year period the loan originally had been written for.Occasionally when I found that money was a little tighter as I made monthly mortgage payments, I would add in an extra $200 or $400 from my extra cash flow for principal only, and after I finally had paid down an extra $5,000 in principal total, however long it took, I would send in my request to the bank to recast the loan and quickly saw my cash flow go up again.