I set a goal of 12 new books, and by setting this goal and buying the books ahead of time I find you read through them much faster than planned. 

When everyone exits, you stay in place or come come in " That way, when it rebounds (and it will) you will be ahead of the curve before all the other homes come back and saturate the marketplace.

I think that deals are still getting done everywhere, even in NJ where we had a hard stop, but we still have to get out ahead into the future so we don't get bogged down by all the negatives of the present.

Turn Key is much more straight forward... it more a ROI play on your cash. 

For a straight BRRRR, I love HML. 

Go ahead and use them if you choose to, that's entirely up to you.

I was thinking of selling my income property in Oakland (Duplex, worth around 800k with 450K 1st, $4,500 pm income) and buy a property in Las Vegas (Single Family, priced at 680k, Vacant, $3500 potential income, house hacking).I was about to go ahead with the agent but I wanted to see if there was a way I could leverage the other property so I could keep it as I just completed a Loan Mod at 2% interest only (for 5 years) , so I have some significant positive cashflow (around 3k PM).My credit is pretty bad (560) as I recently completed a chapter 13. 

Like I said the investors I work with are years ahead of me so curious your thoughts on these details. 

Because I trained my tenants to call me ahead of time with issues and confront the issue, instead of lying or avoiding them, that is exactly what my tenant that could not pay the rent did.

"Purchase price is usually locked-in ahead of time.