Use the debt capacity or excess cash to ramp up the investing side.4.

BUT, if you can find qualified tenants that don't have pets, it will be less wear and tear(or less likely to have excessive), less likeliness of noise issues, less issues with insurance coverage, local ordinances and breed specific bans, etc.In either case, it's real estate, so it depends on location, location, location...does your location have a enough applicants that you can be choosy enough to not have Section8 or pets, but at the same time get the desired rental income?

With allowing the owners to recover, the time commitment from purchasers becomes excessive driving off some potential buyers which results in less than top price. 

They will share in income and future expenses (if any arises in excess of what we have in reserves), based on their equity.

Excess mail in the mailbox.

How about offering them help with cleaning up their yard and getting excess junk hauled away which can definitely increase the value your property in a buyers eye?

Overall, need the property to cashflow positive and pay for itself.TerryI will let the CPA's of BP chime in but i think part of the new tax law was no write off on helocs in excess of basis..

Do you want to get to x number of doors so you can retire or are you looking to park some excess cash in an asset you can control? 

In the DMV you show up with your fat deposit and then if you are the winning bidder you have X days to close with X ranging from 15 to whenever the court ratifies the sale, depending on where the property is located.

Any expenses in excess of your rental income from related parties is not deductible.