Option 1: Keep the home and rent it and cash flow about $2,000 per month while it appreciates.Option 2: Sell the home and cash out.Option 3: 1031 exchange the home into 4-6 units in Knoxville which would be about the same value.More info: Riverside as you all know is a great appreciating market but not landlord-friendly being in CA. 

We were overseas in Okinawa.... and I don't know anyone who bought... there might have been, but I only knew renters (and we had to pay in cash monthly... that was a pain!). 

Purchase price: $38,000 Cash invested: $48,000 Single family, Home in an older established neighborhood needing complete updating.

Accessing money from the stock market is expensive, whereas you can access the money from your real estate by collecting rent, cashing out equity, a line of credit, selling and investing in multiple properties, etc.I have a relative who has over $2 million in the stock market.

Purchase price: $505,000 Cash invested: $55,000 Sold our first condo and used the equity as down payment and for a couple upgrades on this this single family primary residence / house hack.

(Net selling amount minus all cash you’ll receive from sale that must be reinvested.) are you looking to buy the same price property as you’re selling?

About three years ago, I used Plastiq just as you are doing, to help provide the down payment on an investment property.

I love starting in the Midwest, it's affordable with great cash flow.

OR buy the rental from those that provide them, learn as you go, Simple as that.

Take some equity out and buy 3 more that cash flow they carry all the loans.