I'm just hoping, at the very least, for the property to be self sustaining if at some point its no longer owner occupied.Thanks, best of luck to you as well!

.✅ Significant and sustained population growth.

( I plan on traveling there once I have a plan in place)The sustainable answer would be to find other passive investors as opposed to those who get paid referrals to lead you back to a sale.

This means as long as you have the income to sustain the mortgage, you should be good to go (of course credit, down payment, etc.).Therefore regarding your current place, if you intend to keep it as a rental the lender will want to see a lease and some money in the bank (each lender is different).

Its impossible to have a crystal ball @Jonathan Vona, there are people like Robert Kiyosaki and other economists who predict a correction / recession / crash or whatever you want to call it this year or by 2019.If you are going by the 10-12 years cycle then it may happen, if you are looking at the debt levels in the US and Europe then yes it doesn't look sustainable especially with rising interest rates.

I totally agree and hope to find the right property that can sustain it's own mortgage and also be affordable for us to get started with.  

We are very well capitalized, we could permanently sustain 35% vacancies and 50% for several years.

That many units, at 50% LTV or less, there should be adequate cash flow to sustain the properties AND live off of cash flow.

This means each deal is self sustaining, and the profits are what moves forward, not backwards. 

They are sustainable and profitable.