It will familiarize you with the basic terminology and benefits.

You can use bat insulation or spray foam, which has the added benefit of giving you an air-tight seal and also keeps the bugs out. 

Paying off the mortgages negates one of the biggest benefits of investing in real estate, leverage.

It has almost zero benefit to have it to just represent yourself. 

Even if you don’t have enough equity to buy in all cash, you may still have enough to make a larger down payment, which has its own benefits too.Bottom LineHomeowners have an incredible amount of equity today – and that’s why the share of all-cash buyers is on the rise.

The only way to make money in bad neighborhood through LTR is either getting the government benefit or running it as a slumlord.

You’re already getting the tax benefit, so I wouldn’t feel the need to roll the gains into more real estate.

(and depreciation & other tax benefits 🙂)

It seems like it is becoming good business for lenders to start enforcing (they may actually also benefit by getting these 2-3% interest loans off their books).

It will familiarize you with the basic terminology and benefits of investing.