1) If you continue waiting for the "right time ”, you’ll always be waiting.2) Your current job doesn't care about you.

OSU enrollment continues to grow and it ranks in the top 10 in the nation for highest enrollment to lack of housing ratio in the nation.

Here you would continue to find borrowers and fund loans with your own money.

I will continue to research the topic as you suggested and hopefully continue to learn more about it.

That’s a good plan. 1031 is a bit complicated but you can continue to roll cost segregation benefits forward  

Continued softening?

And the smaller cabins continue to see steady growth in rents.  

Most important to me is equity, to continue my growth. 

If you catch these at the pre-foreclosure stage as slow pays or initially in default all the better as the bank has less in collection expense.You can still work out a discount but even buying at the payoff it can be profitable depending on the property value.You can practically force a lender to sell as it can fully indemnify them as a full payoff as demanded, continuing with a foreclosure becomes a rather vengeful act by the bank to punish a borrower, they don't want to go there.

@Jaren Woeppel , after looking at the available local options, we continue to self-manage although we export a number of tasks, ie. answering the phone.