But at a certain point, your renter pool becomes smaller and there's a diminishing return on your investment to differentiate your property.

However, it does let you work ON your business rather than FOR it, so stresses change and maybe even diminish.  

Conversely, refinancing preserves your current positive cash flow and requires less hands-on work, but you may not secure the same low interest rate and could diminish the equity available for your next house hack.

Same as you, I saw diminishing opportunity up there and increasing opportunity down here. 

Without sealing the air penetrations from conditioned to unconditioned space, the insulation R value will be strongly diminished and the dust, draftiness, high utility bills, etc will continue. 

You should keep something in your properties as a hedge, but at some point your equity has diminishing returns.

But I know I made the right call when I sold some properties end of 2021/early 2022, and did not 1031ex, but rather paid taxes and eliminated debt on the properties I wanted to keep.I’m hoping to keep what I have for as long as a I can stand managing them (at least they are nice properties in prime locations…but as I get older my tolerance for hassles diminishes ;)  So I don’t fool myself for a second acknowledging that there are all kinds of external factors that may compel me to sell.

I think a bit of analysis paralysis is good for a new investor in this current market when looking at TK providers.When I first started REI in late 2013, I only worked with TK providers and bought as fast as I could because I knew the recession was coming to a close and the great deals were diminishing rapidly.NOw, we are in a completely different market, we have a different president....

Hi, @Rudy Brown, I would suggest that spreading your money out would be much more advantageous -- you're not only growing your portfolio faster, you're also diminishing the likelihood of losing your shirt if one of the properties doesn't cash flow for a while, has debt, etc.

If you have reached the highest potential return or at least a point of dramatic diminishing returns then figure out how to do something else.