I'm afraid I don't know exactly where to refer you on this, but I would think probably that starting out not paying someone for advice or mentorship would be the most economical, but probably the route with the steepest learning curve.

In 2020 with COVID, insurance crisis and strata (HOA) fees going up, and my tenant giving notice, it seemed like a good time to cash out as the property would no longer cash flow and I feel like there will be some decent opportunities in stocks that could come up in the near term.

I certainly think we had the potential to maybe do another (5) but beyond that I am at a loss to understand how people are doing it.Some background is that most of these houses are what I call light rehab (i.e. cosmetics, flooring, maybe a roof) and we do a mixture of self-labor along with finding supplemental workers where we can as professional contractors seem to be impractical somewhat from the economic perspective but more so lead time. 

L This is basically supply and demand economics for the type of asset you hold. 

Because of this we needed to find a difficult problem (property) that needed solving - something that would scare most other buyers and investors away, low enough on the economic scale as to not attract “big money,” and unique enough to require a more flexible type of thinking.

Then they end up renting to a less desirable tenant, and then they have economic vacancy or more expensive turnovers and the process repeats until they get fed up and sell. 

Younger and single military personnel tend to stay in the North East (79924,79925), they seem to find something more economical there and relatively short distance to Ft.Bliss.

Housing subsidies included in Covid Relief Legislation will not come near resolving the financial burden placed on property owners/landlords during this crisis - nor is the court system equipped to handle the eviction tsunami in the making. 

We are in uncertain economic times, lending could tighten up making it harder to get a cash out refi.

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