It has had notable population growth for the last few years, and has a housing shortage that would suggest continued appreciation and low vacancy!

@Laura Alamery Im not able to message you privately for some reason.

His reasons to pay off all of your debts, one at a time, are:1) Peace of mind and personal satisfaction2) You can't be guaranteed what your other investments will yield3) You can use a credit card for emergencies, rather than use your savings, which would make paying off the debts take longer4) You could realistically pay your mortgage off in 7-10 years and have more money to invest.5) Your other investments might not pay you when you need them to and you find yourself in a cash flow crunch and not able to make mortgage paymentsMy reasons for paying off all personal debts are:1) If you can buy and sell an investment house and make $30,000--why not just pay your mortgage off?

The owner has not been successful getting them to see the light, and as a result is not able to sell the Park for the 10% cap he is asking.  

Wells Fargo was not able to accommodate. 

And Darren, your response was buried in the flurry of responses so I was not able to reply.

And it's me that makes the final decision on what we're going to do - whether triple crown or whatever and we're not able to set down exactly ahead of time what we're going to do, because we don't know what we'll find until we start tearing down walls.I remember once I had a carpenter walk off the job, when I said that we'd need a higher ladder to screw in a new light bulb.

This investor already has a list of people who know how to rehab properties but is not able to keep them busy enough for them to work for the investor full time.  

I want to be able to provide for my future family, and have them be able to do things I was not able to do when I was young because of finances.

When the bubble burst, banks had to shore up their balance sheet and started closing HELOCS, investors relying on them for emergency funds were not able to weather the storm.