The younger you are the more risk you can take and the faster you can scale.

I want to build credit faster.

We are looking at this at the aspect that the more we can work together the faster we can scale.

The two exhibit a fairly strong long-term relationship, shown by the graph below.But if rents are growing faster than incomes (blue dots in below), that could be a sign that a market is detaching a bit from fundamentals. 

This may also reduce your housing costs allowing you to save faster for the next deal. 

I can't believe it's not a bigger topic that the printers are going to run until the dollar's purchasing power erodes even faster. 

Yes, you could also use it to pay down on some properties but if you’re just starting out I suggest you put the cash flow towards rentals so you can scale faster.

Staging properties has shown to lease and sale properties faster.

Your investment will probably sell faster than it takes to find your next project so get into the game now while the market is crazy hot.

(The process wasn't fast before and having a bunch of desperate litigants in backlog won't make the process any faster  -- similar to the line at a tire shop the first day of snow)  Banks will be reluctant to write down the losses so they may list them as overpriced REO's -- hoping to capture a gain justified by inflated prices (caused by artificially low interest rates)   Institutions with money like Berkshire Hathaway and Blackstone  will likely negotiate directly with the banks to buy portfolios of bad loans and foreclosed properties.