A fellow investor or someone else with some extra capital that they are looking to grow at a solid rate?

When you grow your primary circle of influence geometrically, you grow your secondary circle exponentially.

My thinking is that if we sell the property and walk away with a bunch of cash we could buy another property with around the same cashflow but with higher upside as far as a SFR growing in value more quickly than a townhouse would.My wife is thinking that she likes the cashflow and it rents really easy.

Hey BP community, I am new to real estate investing and am glad that I found bigger pockets to help me learn, network, and grow.

This might be little confusing, but you might have tax loss, but still have actual cash flow from your rental because of depreciation(known as a phantom expense where there is no cash outflow).There are various stuff that you can deduct.Rather than giving you the entire list, let me say that you can deduct expenses that meet these two criterions: Ordinary Course of BusinessNecessary in the course of businessHere is the list some of the items:1) Mileage: any mileage that is associated with the rental activity.

The area is growing and I anticipate rents going up as well as house prices, i don't want to bet on this but it does give me some comfort that equity will increase over the next few years.  

I firmly believe having control over your investments offers greater potential to grow and expand. 

Now that we're settled in our new home, I'm looking to find my first property in the next 6-9 months.I'm always looking to meet new people and continue to grow a real estate network. 

I still have a W2 but our portfolio has been consistently growing, since I started networking more. 

If we sell, our plan is to take our time to look into getting a multi family property maybe just outside the Bay Area (it's too expensive here) so we can continue to let the money grow.