., it's probably not worth the headache and possibly prolonged vacancy. 

I've been very conservative and originally planned to buy houses for cash one at a time, but I'm beginning to think that strategy may be too prolonged, as my goal is financial freedom.

We aren't panic selling, but we are selling to increase our cash.In 2016 I believe we will be faced with the start of a prolonged buying opportunity we will never again see in my lifetime and possibly not in my grandkids lifetimes.

Of course if things go south, you also risk sleeping on the couch for a prolonged amount of time or the cat being your new best buddy.

People get so bogged down on making a perfect website (Which has not given me very many leads) , making a perfect business card, making a perfect yellow letter with the perfect lists.. that they actually just prolong actually getting started and taking serious action.Your objective starting out is finding a solid, Juicy deal.

@Levi BjorkIn a very broad sense, your cost basis for taxes is the purchase price of the home and the costs for capital improvements to the home that have added value, prolonged its life, or adapted it for a new use (additional square footage, fencing, landscape improvements) outside of normal repairs and maintenance...For your cash on cash calculation, you can't really use the general calculation because you've been living in the home.

The government has done an aggressive job of setting an un-natural bottom and prolonging the downturn.

Could something happen that could prolong holding the property?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alchemy The best-known goals of the alchemists were the transmutation of common metals into gold (called chrysopoeia) or silver (less well known is plant alchemy, or "spagyric"); the creation of a "panacea", or the elixir of life, a remedy that supposedly would cure all diseases and prolong life indefinitely; and the discovery of a universal solvent.[4] Although these were not the only uses for the discipline, they were the ones most documented and well known No matter how much people think that things change, they all stay the same........

While I don't wish ill on any investor, a prolonged correction to end this aged bull market cycle would be very welcoming to me.