I have a lender, Ray Putt with Access Capital Mortgage, who I've known personally for over two decades, did our loan for our home (and everyone else in my family) and now has done several for my clients as well (he can do loans nationwide).  

If you wait a year you’ll be in the lower capital gains tax bracket.

Right now, I'm hustling multiple jobs to build capital while I binge research and information.

Houses are capital projects (long-term assets) and should be evaluated short-term but with an emphasis on long-term.  

3) If you owner finance, can you not pay capital gains on the sale or at what point would you need to pay capital gains?   

With BP Nation input, maybe we can get a picture of the collective NC markets. 

I have used capital concepts to refi on my investment properties, they are investor friendly.

In other words, not quite the 1% rule, but hopefully little capital expenditures for a while.

Now, I'm not an accountant and again I don't know a ton about them, but it basically allows you to sell property and take the capital gains from that property and use it to buy another property of equal or greater value while deferring all of the capital gains taxes that you'd owe by just selling those properties. 

Hi Anthony,National Tenant Network is a service you can use to screen prospective tenants.