I'm still green and any and all advice would be helpful and appreciated.

Even if your mortgage is $2k, you have taxes, insurance, and maintenance, which can easily eat up the rest.  

If you are in B/A areas, then they may have the extra money to appreciate it, want a nice green lawn, pride of ownership, etc.If all the neighbors have it, it's probably fitting you do.

I got my profile set up and as most of your will find out I am as green to real estate as the grass in the Mississippi delta.  

I am eating what I kill so to speak.

Personally, I would not take a tax hit but in your situation only you know or can find out the ramifications of doing so.SDIRA do have fees and if you are not using it to invest then it will eat away at your money. 

You could easily eat up 10% of your profit, leaving you with a 20% spread.

There are wolves who will eat you alive.

And just for the record, we may not share the appreciation on our properties but that certainly doesn't mean banks are eating all the costs when things go south.

Additionally the landlords paying water the utility companies even with no leaks are raising water and sewer per gallon usage rates which can eat into returns.