But it all depends on your goals and risk tolerance.

Our risk tolerance is different, our hands-on preferences are different.

You either have to tolerate their underperformance  (or poor service or unreasonable pricing) on one of their two services for the sake of keeping the other - or you have to dump the entire firm and start from square one.- Yet another problem: turnover.

For the neighborhood search you need to create parameters like this much income and this much crime you can tolerate.

As a strategy I find it on the risky side of my personal risk tolerance. 

David Toler I'm actually not sure about that IRA.

It's tolerated, because you're learning. etc., etc.).

But, if you can afford to subsidize the rental income for the foreseeable future and can tolerate repairs, and you have the majority of your PITI being paid by the rent, does it not make it an ok investment anyway due to the loan payment and potential appreciation?

If I wanted to report to someone I would have stayed in my cubicle.It will come down to your risk tolerance too, of course.

if you pay off your loan you will have less risk, but a lower return of your cash invested. simple as that, neither is wrong, just depends on your risk tolerance.