If you are getting close to retirement age, I would not be inclined to leverage overly much. 

That could entice retirement account individuals who would like to lien behind the 70%, especially if real estate entices and property cash flows even with both liens and expenses.

Cold belt states can still have good areas they just have more dead areas in between where people are moving away to the warm belt states for retirement.

You could sell the property and use take the proceeds flip more properties to invest in larger long term deals or just keep compounding the cash until you're ready to retire and then buy larger deals or invest in others deals.

Investors can retire (FIRE) in a few years with these.We love them

Providing maybe 50k a year and ultimately using it as a tool I can retire with by selling them after I’ve built up quite a bit of equity.

Obviously, someone planning to retire in five years should not be diving into risky investments whether real estate or stocks.

Gary was retiring soon. 

Did mobile home park as a teenager for our parents.Although we are retired and backing off our REI push, still doing deals.    

Hi all,I am a property investor/landlord in Oregon with 4-5 rental properties to create cash flow now, and into retirement.