Don't fight it, figure out how to deal with your biggest pet peeves (indoor furniture outdoors, for me) and let the rest slide.  

These guys aren't going to take my money without a fight

Do not waste your time fighting Forecasters, The Unhappy, Journalists and Economists.

I've made good money (especially in my ROTH) playing with mobile homes, but that last one was a fight just to get out of.

Looks like Ben Leybovich started a cat fight - again...and it wasn't even my post.  

You have to be open to the new environment and accept change, not fight it. 

I say almost impossible as perhaps with your talent and skills you can find a distressed home in Irvine, California with those ratios.

Of course, in Irvine apartment construction has been booming, and now the thousands of houses and apartment units at the Great Park are coming.Deep down, I wish that most people in the USA were debt free and owned their homes outright.

She said she had to replace the toilet handle chain...In the end, thanks to her friends impression and me only being 5'8", being alone, and not versed in any type of fighting techniques, I swallowed my tongue and paid the $800 to get them out of the house.This brings me to my question.

Adam,The battle I'm sort of fighting is whether making my payday when I sell the Texas property bigger to roll into a bigger/more property when I do that sale, or to expedite having the Indiana property free and clear better serves me long term.I am all out of conventional mortgages, and havent looked for portfolio loans for mortgages past the first four.The Texas property has about 80k left on it's mortgage and the Indiana property 49k.