, nor are they helping the people on the other side of this crisis, the renters and unemployed who are circling the drain even faster than landlords.  

If you are super skillful and know how to race indy cars you can get where you want to go faster with more leverage, but you can also crash and burn if you're not skillful. 

We have a lot of 1960s ranches in Milwaukee and many have loud floors, which I find unacceptable.Hardwood floors creek when the floor boards rub under your weight.

I have found tools are not a replacement for experience, they only help preform learned tasks faster.  

Saving another 30k for a new house is gonna be much faster than paying off that $240k.

Set my two properties on a new glide path to produce better cash flow and in a position to pay down the balance faster and leverage the equity for future investments and purchase another rental property in the following year?

Then eventually they’re going to realize they are not pulling their weight and they will start flowing.

A high amount of your credit card payment will be interest which is a higher rate than your mortgage which feels like wasted money that could be going to your house to get it paid off even faster.  

We have had a faster rent rate with 1 bedrooms than 2 bedrooms on our new builds.

Consider that multiple income streams ( eg jobs+ rental income) are going to help you payoff that debt faster than a job alone. you also want to think about your DTI - debt to income ratio.