The more streams of leads you have the higher the chance you'll end up finding a deal.

Fair enough.In my opinon, I feel that unlike Amazon, unlike a rental property, unlike owning a debt, unlike owning a company (public or private), unlike owning a royalty stream, or intellectual property, Bitcoin's value is in it's replacement of other currencies as a store of value.

You don't have a main stream vacation crowd, but it reduces some seasonality and there is always something going on in the lower price-point area.   

Hard money has really become institutionalized and main streamed over the course of the last decade or so.

what i need is someone to run the numbers and compare whether the extra income generated by a bigger residential building (minus the necessary loan payments) offsets the advantage of a smaller building with fewer units that's producing income with only a minimum loan (~90k) to satisfy the "no cash out" part of the 1031.i realize that a bigger building provides a steadier income stream, and there's more depreciation, and a bigger building allows trading a space for a live-in manager. i'd guess that someone who lives in a building has is a little committed, as opposed to just involved, and would probably do a better job.still, i'm kind of risk-intolerant by nature, and a big loan is a little scary. if i own a building free and clear, it's harder to screw up and lose it.thanks for your help.

I'm a corporate professional on a journey to build an income stream via RE investing. 

I'm feeling super lost right now and so many mixed emotions after three years of blood sweat and tears trying to get this place up and running.

I’ve once heard a quote , “a homeless man isn’t homeless because he doesn’t have debt, he is homeless because he doesn’t have enough streams of income”.

Maybe the ‘job’ should be more than that to improve your income stream.

Hard to imagine local municipalities willingly giving up a primary revenue stream.