Looking forward to being part of the community and hope to pass along everything I learn as I continue to grow.

The HOA restrictions specifically say that "Pets must be kept in a manner that does not disturb the peaceful enjoyment of residents of other lots" and one of the terms of the lease is that the tenant abides by the HOA restrictions.How would you handle this if it continues after you warn the tenant, and the neighbor keeps complaining?

And if you are interested in continuing to invest in real estate beyond your house-hack you will have already laid the ground work for future investing opportunities.

I would recommend that you and your husband continue to get educated about real estate investing.

Lots of great analogies that really helped a lot.Oh and I used to watch Annie Duke play poker on TV back in the day, so I was quite the fan boy listening to this episode.

I think I will take your advice and deal with by debt, before continuing to invest.

Most contracts take 60+ days and in the course of that time the property continues to operate as usual (or at least it supposed to).

Its the big ol’ saying…buy low, sell high.The 2008-2010 selling/buying spree may repeat again if the trade war continues and international investors decrease dramatically their investments here.

The goal with paying it off would be to jump the mental hurdle of owning a property free and clear, start an LLC and transfer the title into that LLC, and then to have a property that we can HELOC against in order to have the flexibility to make cash offers so that we can begin making LLC purchases more easily rather than titling in our own names.I'm certain that plenty here would advise to continue rolling the money into new properties, rather than to pay one down, since owning the house free and clear would provide about half the cash flow that we could get from down payments on two new properties, however my wife (in particular) and I both like the idea of simply owning one property outright and then using the above strategy moving forward. 

If you are new to REI as a whole, I would say that you should continue getting educated.