This is a great conversation and something I frequently ponder.

While overseas, we had tax-free income from frequent deployments, we used the DoD 10% savings to boost our down payments, we used extra duty pays, family sep pay, and COLA to scrape together funds with which to invest. 

Dusting has to be done more frequently too.My 2 cents.

I am not a big fan of Oracle shops. 

Yes, we are in a high cost place here (someone in my office is a BP fan but looking in the Midwest to avoid high land, labor and material costs here, like you!)..

Here @ BP, there's lots of vicarious experiences and a person with your skills will be able to glean the nuggets herein.Stick with it because persistence is frequently rewarded well.

You could rinse and repeat with a duplex, triplex or fourplex...move in and do it again, and see if you lifestyle and day job fits even more additional units in a couple of more years (I am more a fan of work life balance than competing for the most doors, but to each his/her own).

These posts come up on google, so if a baseball fan googles your name, they'd come across your posts on BiggerPockets.

If "it" does hit the fan then you are better off (see insurance tip below).

The principal differences being:the electric baseboards (EBB) are install and controlled on a room-by-room basis; andEBBs rely on convection to permeate heat into the room (there is no fan circulating the air)In theory EBBs should have similar operating costs to a centralized electric forced air furnace (if not lower), however, in practice, that is usually not the case.Because of their reliance on convection, EBBs have slow recovery - i.e. if there has been a draft (someone opening an external door or window) or if the heat has been set back during the day and was turned up on the occupants return.