I personally hope to use the specialized marketing background to enhance my real estate sales career.

Set up criteria for what works for your budget, your lifestyle,  along with what works for your fear of a recession. 

Re debt consolidation, I believe DR recommends against it if you can't pay off the debt in under two years (assuming you really lean into the debt by cutting lifestyle and increasing income), that the savings from the lower interest rate will be largely negligible.

Night and day in terms of lifestyles. 

What I read in your post is that all of your goals are lifestyle not balance sheet oriented - travel, baby, time, job enjoyment, freedom etc...  

Nice post @Wes BlackwellThe only problem I see is that those millennials that are moving from the bay area aren't really looking for the affordable suburban lifestyle or area's like Del Paso Heights.  

That's not fog, that's a lifestyle they have to change to go out and buy.As everyone is saying, if the numbers are good, then they're good.

I think the type of photos you have a great...some lifestyle mixed in with the full photo of a room.

The have it and they are not going to let it go, in fear of deasticly changing their lifestyle... perhaps you can find the 8-12 plex owners that want to bump up to a 40 unit, and you can offer to take their smaller unit when the time suits them.As for the pricing... yeah tough to answer, you are obviously valuing it differently than they are, you should search as to what the difference is in the calculations.

It's a lifestyle choice that's not for everyone, but in the end far more profitable and incomparable in risk.