Does that mean when you sell your primary someday you won't be eligible for the 121 tax exclusion on any gain?

Well  turns out in Oregon there are two zones  one EFU ( Exclusive Farm Use) and TBZ ( exclusive timber use)  160 acre minimum to build one home... 

Options include driving for dollars, absentee, probate, using listsource if you're not in a competitive market, buying lists that are exclusive for your market type (we partnered with a guy that does this) 3) Start a sustained direct mail campaign.

Do you want to go after only duds that no one wants and deal exclusively with homeowners with unreasonable expectations of their property value?

When you pick the right rental properties and property management to do the actual work,your personal location is irrelevant.I know many investors who live in California and invest exclusively in Ohio,Indiana,and Tennessee multi-family properties and never even meet the tenants or deal with any of the headaches that they can bring on.Some are retired and travel full time in RVs and boats and never have a permanent home.

I work exclusively with investors and focus mostly on multi family.  

I have also never seen an auction posting in the Advertiser in the many years I have been looking in the foreclosures section of the newspaper.  

I own a cronstruction company and for the past 2 years I have done work exclusively for house flippers. 

although I invest exclusively in SF, Temescal is prime.

Options include driving for dollars, absentee, probate, using listsource if you're not in a competitive market, buying lists that are exclusive for your market type (we partnered with a guy that does this) 3) Start a sustained direct mail campaign.