As long as you connect with good sponsors you'll have access to deal flow that provides truly passive income and capital appreciation in a tax efficient vehicle.One final suggestion: if you go this route evaluate/underwrite a ton of deals before you participate.Happy Hunting Darin!

Hey Blake congratulations Have you come across brokerage firms in Springfield or the surrounding areas that allow investor agents access to the MLS??

There's a moratorium on building multi family in my town that was instituted to stop an enormous multi family development.

Call a different guy and in the mean time cutvthe power to the unit to stop it from ruining your property with the leak . 

I'd probably do nothing until the payments stop coming.

My end goal is to replace my income and give me the option to stop working if I want to.

I appreciate your thoughts and now I feel like my questions are silly, but I appreciate your thoughts that there isn't a "right way" to do it, so stop "looking for it!"

The complication of tax should not stop you from investing in any type of the deals. 

I own 30 units and I personally feel like I want to stop acquiring more properties and grow in other aspects of Real Estate

During that time, there were so many auctions that I have to limit myself to no more than one or two a week.I wrote an answer recently on another thread that goes more into this:  REO propertiesI stopped going to court house step auctions where bank always show up and bid on the their REO property.