Both my wife and I have worked 15+ years in the housing/homelessness and Mental Health Non Profit sectors and realized that if we are ever going to achieve financial independence, we need to begin developing side incomes.I look forward learning from other BP fans in the SLC (and beyond) and am interested in best steps for evaluating rental properties and beginning to understand the local market.

That still being said, Even after buying, fixing and added money over that period, my internal rate of return is still great as it still comps out at 70k+ and I will be able to refi again in the next economic boom of 2030-2033. 

You might also talk to the health department in your area to see who handles these kinds of habitability issues.

I'd be especially careful right now given Dan Gilbert's health problems.

But the future might be questionable if economic decline in  those areas continues.It would make sense to stick to one market for efficiencies and economies of scale. 

"As Vice Money puts it, "American marginal tax brackets aren't too different from Canadians', yet [Canadians] get universal health care and [Americans] don't."

Dead end job with an economic cap. 

Because in your fantasy world, there are no other major structural reasons you're down in the economic hole you're in.

I'm not finding those at the moment, so am putting that cash to work on flips until this elusive economic slowdown occurs.

The problem as he sees it is no one really predicted a Trump victory, and rather than our economic balloon deflating and then properly inflating again, it continued to inflate, now the air is starting to come out.