Also, focus on 2 years of job/income stability.Class D Properties:Cashflow vs Appreciation: Typically, all cashflow with zero or negative relative rent & value appreciationVacancy Est: 20%+ should be used to cover nonpayment, evictions & damages.Tenant Pool: majority will have FICO scores under 560, little to no good tradelines, lots of collections & chargeoffs, recent evictions.

I am trying to get into the real estate industry as one of my main income sources, however I don't want to take a slow and steady approach as a goal to finally retire comfortable at 50.

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My goal from day 1 has always been passive income as much as possible. 

Several reasons:  Phoenix is an expensive and hyper-competitive market; your monthly income is $4K which in and of itself is limiting, but even more so with most of that being cash; and your credit score, while not terrible, needs to be raised, especially with you being self employed and a mostly cash income.

My recommendation is to choose cities in safe and economically diversified areas with above-average income and population growth.

Essentially once the panels are paid, you are looking at another source of income due to the fact that you are now essentially the power company for your own house.

Can I claim the deduction of $80,000 * 0.60 = $42,000 against my w2 income in the first year? 

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.

@Michael Lipari I recommend renting it out for a period of time, taking some rental income, then selling off market and you may be able to convince the IRS that it was an investment property.