I always ask for 30 year loans and usually get offered 10-20 year amort, but we all know that we are going to refinance in a few years anyway, so I always ensure there are no prepayment penalties (learned this one the hard way).Hope my thoughts help you get the juices flowing.

You will succeed and have a plenty fruitful investing business with only consistency and systematic processes, not by denying yourself a house to play, dream, create, make love, and cultivate ritualistic health and safety.

On $15M don't be surprised if your capital partners to cut that down to .5%-1%; 1.25-1.5% if they are feeling generous or the deal has a lot of juice. 

Giving for a tax write off is giving to receive and that's not offering first fruits. 

many would ridicule them for this as people could not understand why they did not want to juice returns..I sold all my rentals a few years back but i do have new construction projects that will come out of the ground later this year.  

It may take some years but for real estate - the juice is usually worth the squeeze.

Having multiple properties with your name on it make you super easy low hanging fruit for lawyers.

You own the domain name, the URL and all your SEO juice is attached to that domain name.

Later on, as you have acquired more, I would lean back a bit and enjoy the fruits of your labor.

My advice is to always look at the fruit.