Some of our clients sell their portfolios in expensive markets like San Diego and reinvest (via 1031 exchange, or in your case it's not necessary) elsewhere.

To me its a joke, who thinks things have not gotten a lot more expensive - and oh btw that bag of 20oz of X is now only 18oz but its the same price... 

You can probably find basics of these forms online and then have a local attorney clean them up and make them compliant for your state (or the lawyer could draft them although they'd be a bit more expensive).

Concrete work is expensive.

He doesn't send out invoices and just gets paid by zelle.

The answer to their question is whatever you paid in 2013 plus major improvements done since that time, if any.

Some contractors are just more expensive than others .

IMO this is because of government fiscal policy, ie spending.Bad Government Fiscal Policy is Driving InflationDeficit spending is a snake eating its tail: deficit spending → more inflation → higher interest rates to slow inflation = more inflation = keep interest rates higher → debt more expensive / accelerates…..repeat.The US debt has is currently rising by $1 trillion every 100 days, or roughly the budget of our entire defense budget (which is larger than the next 10 countries combined).

I'd plan to pay off both loans within 5-7 years with cash flow from the rental and other income and assets.I'm an accredited investor and will still have more than a year of expenses covered in liquid assets and additional funds to buy another 1-2 properties in the next 2 years, which is my goal.I don't know if I've provided enough or the right information to get some opinions if what I'm planning to do with my current house and new home purchase makes sense. 

Thanks I would look to AirDNA for this - they have long had pretty good (guidance, not perfect) rentalizer solutions for projecting revenue, but have recently added good info on expected expenses and the property managers in the area (for at the very least coming up with expected operating / management costs) etc