If your open to sacrificing some of your comfort for a few years, you can make a BIG impact on your life with just one or two house hacks!

Low used housing supply - Along the same lines of the last one, 2008 had a huge impact here.

It may impact your reserve requirement, but it will eliminate the risk of taking on a Tenant that someone else places without your proper screening.

Hello Austin, I recently joined the Air Force and am writing this from my tech school (I don’t yet know what area or market I’ll be stationed near). 

Get a property that suits your goals, live in rehab it, and force appreciation.

The current market rent for that little house we were renting is now $1,500, which if forced to pay I would personally not feel like I was getting good value at that rental price.

I was afraid that she was going to file bankruptcy when she got over loaded and the BK court would force me to let her live in my rental without rent until they settled her issues.Her debt was mostly credit cards, used the $ on trips, eating out, expensive clothes and purses and shoes. 

I'm really not a good landlord, because I worry too much about the impact on the tenant and I made the mistake of getting to know them :-).

I bought this property knowing there was a change for forced appreciation, house was well lived in with smokers for about 20+ years.

This means I would probably have to give up some cash flow and focus more on potential appreciation (general or forced).