Your "pure" cash flow, even your reserves if you wanted, could be in crypto which will leave it subject to market fluctuations. 

You can focus more on cash flow on pure rentals later in life, but early is the time to go for the capital gains.My advice is to house hack as many times as you can before you have kids.

Are (some) Lenders that desperate to find Borrowers, that they lend purely against your promise to pay back, even though you have no provable assets or income, and they'd have no way of tracking you down if/when your scheme/scam comes undone?

More when they went for outings.You're really talking about a business that has a real estate component, rather than a pure real estate investment.

This wasn't the only asinine statement on the inspection report, so my realtor pointed out to the buyer's realtor that this the inspection report was pure BS.  

Just for grins, our personal home was purchased in Cupertino in 1973 for 34K sold in 1997 for 305K - - you do the math.The clue here is Cupertino; located in the Silicon Valley where the hi-tech companies are co-located -- Google, Oracle, Facebook, Parc/xerox, HP, Apple and it's all located withing hours of the mountains, sea shore, fishing, hiking - - It was only pure luck that my employer moved me to a job in Palo Alto and I got to live there.That gain FORCED me into a 1031 for my MFU

I continue to invest in Philly mainly because of the systems and team I have there, not necessarily purely for the market itself.

If so, were you living there as well, or was it purely tenant-occupied?

Are you going to owner occupy or is this a pure investment?

So purely from a tax standpoint, renting it out for a period of time gives you the two best options: 1031 and cash out refi.Hope that helps!