My personal opinion is owning your home outright is an amazing feeling and impressive feat.

I'm personally looking at the 2-4 space right now as I think there should be good opportunity there to make the numbers work in high-value markets

Even if the property is not currently on the market, it will show you a lot of info that I personally find important.

Other times you see a person do a single post and ghost their own post.I am in two other forums that are dead or dying.  

Has anyone hired someone on payroll to oversee their personal portfolio?  

I personally prefer when investors have some skin in the game.

Quote from @David Tiefenthaler: Brandon is a great teacher and a good person, but that book teaches methods that are not good for investors and are more likely to get you in trouble.

The complaint was that we gave an apartment to a family and not her (single person). 

As a person who has purchased hundreds of mortgage notes (non-performing and performing) and done many seller finance deals let me tell you if this was the case wouldn't all banks require the buyer (their borrower) to get such a deed so that if their borrowers do not pay then they don't have to go through foreclosure.  

I am thinking Des Moines may be a good place for me to start for some personal and professional reasons.