ThanksRichard I'd transition to development and use your portfolio as leverage to acquire and entitle land.

Additionally, basing the loan amount on past below-market rents seems unfair, as lenders should consider current market value and potential rental income.

If you're willing to bend your timeline a little to give yourself the best shot at qualifying for 1031 exchanges and being super tax efficient with your properties, you could try doing the following: - Hold each successive property for at least 12 months before selling - make sure that you acquire property in one tax year and then don't sell that same property until the following tax yearI want to stress that you do not automatically lose out on 1031 treatment by not taking these steps, and similarly you don't automatically qualify for 1031 treatment by simply taking these steps. 

So there is an additional cost but it's typically much less than the fees charged by the OTA platform.

This will allow you to acquire more rental units and also being able to use the vacated unit rents at 75% to help your debt to income ratio DTI.There is a FHA 100 mile rule if you do plan on using FHA on your 2nd house hack.

This will give you the ability to tap that equity later if needed to go purchase additional properties. 2.

Completely different metrics/analysis as opposed to a traditional rental property because you get an additional, massive benefit: shelter. 

In addition looking to connect with investor friendly:1.

This one sale will enable us to buy 5 additional cash flowing houses, and expanding our cash flow.  

Just wondering if anyone has done this and what safeguards (contract, insurance additional coverage etc), if any, they felt were necessary, and if they've had any unexpected issues.