To further justify my response to question 1, a lower cap gains tax/1031 exchange advantage is not guaranteed to stay forever.

@Brie Schmidt & @Jay Hinrichs started a website turnkey-reviews.com that provides reviews for companies.I've suggested to them to help provide some market analysis tools for exactly this reason.There are a bunch of posts on BP about how to analyse markets including this oneThen you can go on forever with government statistics...Trulia has a great interactive demographic map at http://www.trulia.com/localOf course none of this has been compiled in any sort of side-by-side way to compare turnkey markets.I think it would be a useful exercise.

Social media has since become a very powerful tool, shaping the way we think, act, and consume everything. 

So the thought would be to buy the house and immediately begin to plan my next house purchase, this seems very time consuming however.Option #2: Buy a condo.  

Keep in mind I don't want to work minimum wage forever, my thinking is if the economy tanks (who knows what's going to happen in the next few decades - the length my loan would be) then I'll be able to cover payments no matter what, because minimum wage jobs are the least scarce jobs out there.

My heart will forever bleed Crimson.

While I love my work, I can't do the constant travel forever (hence my motivation to get into REI).

Buy and Hold Forever by David Schumacher4.

If not an 'active' military member, this will not work.Contact the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau and ask them to investigate the servicing of your mortgage account.  

Well, there were a lot of other issues with loan qualification and consumer sentiment in 2012 (end of the RE world, etc) – if you remember back that far.