Appreciate the great advice.What I'm heavily considering right now is moving towards doing this first deal in a commercial retail deal around 1.5 million and selling a few other properties to raise the full cash for it.Then, I could do another similar deal later and have everything split between just the two properties, which makes everything easier if I want to combine it all into one large leveraged apartment building or commercial building.For those of you asking for my story, I'll try and give the condensed version.Basically I started out investing in small residential real estate when I was 19.

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I combine them I to a more dynamic system that just works better.The monkey has spoken.

One simple planning devise most do in their estate plans is to combine the estate tax exemption for each spouse in a trust (called an A/B trust).

You need to have an unique specialty.Sam Shueh

A good deal to me may or may not be good to anybody else - we're all unique, as is every single deal, and we all play this game our own way.  

This could be a unique scenario on STR.

Be unique and create your own pet checklist and criteria process. 

This combination has worked for me locally.

The power of the BRRR method combined with using a HELOC should be great.