Plan on a year of study and learning before you spend any money.

Open floor plan between the kitchen and dining room.

Upcoming Family Commitment: In two years, I'm planning to purchase a family home for around $1M.

Do you plan to do a long term rental and self manage?

I live in San Francisco and plan on purchasing it in Los Angeles. 

I plan on leasing my primary residence and house hack into a new property for my family.

Our plan is to rent it out with monthly cash flow over $300 once we are able to find our next residence.

Do you have plans of just changing your door?

I’ve been busily patting myself on the back for the amount of equity Ive built up in my portfolio and all my bills are paid and the cash flow I thought was good and just had someone else analyze my portfolio and their first response was that the equity is useless unless you plan to sell it or leverage it and my CoC was not good.

Exit plan is VA refinance, but I'm not unwilling to sell to satisfy all parties if necessary.