Otherwise, it makes sense to grow the passive side of your investing portfolio.Right now you've got the luxury of refinancing out, getting 100% of your money back and being in a position to do the exact same thing. 

I like my job but it does not have a very high ceiling in terms of income and growth, but it comes with great benefits. 

If you're in Oakland, you just lost your rent control exemption for owner-occupied duplexes...I run a team in the Bay Area and another in the Raleigh metro and we're right in the middle of working with a number of our Bay Area investors on exchanging out of their local properties and into multiple places in the Triangle ... we're increasing their cash flow and putting them in position for more capital growth (when using conservative estimates).Unless you're dead-set on returning to the Bay Area and wanting to be in that same property, I'd seriously consider exchanging out now. 

I didn't need to 'fill them out' nor report them because it was  in a Roth, thankfully.For the benefit of others at least, I keep my high yielding and high turnover investments in IRAs, growth stock and index/low turnover mutual funds in cash accts. 

You'll be spending many hours looking at stats: job growth, population movements, economic factors, and more.

Technically I own a job but am looking to invest into the business for gains to grow the business and using this to support my real estate investments eventually.

What I love about Indy is the job and population growth.

@Saransh SaxenaWhen we choose markets we focus on areas with job growth #1.

We have a lot of job growth, a very low place of living, and much more! 

But, for hopeful future growth an expansion into other RE sectors, would a C-Corp be better suited?