In terms of complications it makes little difference to me wether I buy property in Nebraska (somewhere affordable) or Costa Rica (Also affordable but with greater chance of strong appreciation in a 10 year time frame) as I would need a property manager either way. 

Focus on building equity in your new primary residence and continue to manage your rental properties efficiently. 

Add charges for rent for the remaining months, estimated utilities, estimated cleaning and repairs and cost to re-rent (in our case: cost to PM is 1/2 a month's rent).

Are there any online platforms or institutions you recommend for studying real estate principles, market analysis, and property management?

David Green's Core 4 strategy (realtor, contractor, property manager, lender) boosts my confidence to invest anywhere.

My current primary ( scenario 1) Keep the primary for the life of the loan ( current rate is 4.5 so i dont see my self refinancing anytime soon)current home value 1,150,000Loan amount 935,000appreciation estimate 5% per year after a 28 year hold and the house is paid off I would have a house worth 4,312,000$my current mortgage is 6125$ ( piti) included My second option( scenario 2) Sell the house, walk away with $150 ,000 ish in hand and put that into a low cost index fund Rent a house elsewhere for about 3000$ ish and take the extra 3000$ im saving everymonths from not having to pay my mortgage and puting that money in the index fund as well I ran the numbers on both of these scenarios and doing what I mentioned above would break even at about 28 years meaning my stock account would be worth 4.3 million just like my house would , but the only is that holding a house for 28 year would mean 28 years of property taxes, loan interest ,home insurance and repairs etc whick I calculated to be about 1,200,000$ at minimum which raised my eyebrows to say the least Also i understand that each of these options ( stock market vs real estate ) will have there tax consequences ( long term capital gains) so any thoughts on that would be appreciated as well.  

I am confident in that market.I am okay with the challenge of it being harder to manage a few different units at the same time - and I would be on-site at least for a year.Investigating the market is simply a time and money aspect.

Hi, we manage properties in a partnership and in a couple LLCs.

The valuations on them appear to be completely arbitrary and in many instances the company seem randomly selectedWe had one recently from someone else who provided the opinion and the comps were 7 miles away and from another jurisdiction - whereas this property while in a more rural area had considerable sales that could have been used.If you use them to get an idea for property condition I find them to have some value but since they have no interior inspection reports, they are at best just a random guess of the value which could be off by 100%If you think residential BPOs are useless, you should familiarize yourself with BPOs on commercial property…..First, I’ve NEVER seen a BPO on commercial property that utilizes the income capitalization or cost approach.  

(Healthy body healthy mind)I'm an agent and Property Manager in the Pocono Mountains area.