Buying the Next Property FasterA 1031 exchange into a bigger property is perfect timing—it consolidates management and boosts cash flow.Once you cross that $70K/year net mark, 1–2 more deals like the one you described could put you into full-time investor territory—especially if you move to fewer, bigger properties.Bottom line:Build systems first, then scale.Bigger units often mean less chaos per dollar of cash flow.Full-time investing usually starts when income is well above living expenses so you can weather surprises without stress.I'll send you a DM if that's okay. 

@Sachin AminIt might be worth doing a 1031 exchange in reinvesting into a more favorable market, like @Arman Ahmed had mentioned.If you do go that route, you could also do what we call a consolidation exchange, where you combine multiple smaller investment properties in your sale and purchase a larger investment property in a 1031 exchange.

While your value added is in the physical aspect of real estate (building SFR, developing subdivisions, etc) our emphasis is on deal structuring (loan modification, wrap mortgages, interest rate arbitration, real property consolidation, tenant repositioning, etc.). 

I would like some advice on debt consolidation I have two properties one is my primary residence which appraised for 143k in 2023.

There were times when I pushed hard to get bigger, and there were times I just consolidated what I had. 

@Chad Clark, Another option is consolidating your RE portfolio to help scale into MF.

However, as you obtain more and more properties, many consolidate properties so they don't have dozens of LLCs, but an amount that they deem reasonable based on liability exposure vs insurance and property value.Definitely let me know if you have any other questions with regards to it.

When we got to what equity he was sitting on, the ability to consolidate things into commercial financing, he declared it a no-brainer and jumped on it. 

In a nutshell, IL (where I live) too expensive of a market, but WI, MI, OH etc seems like you’d get more bang for your buck. also,  you can look at a City’s  consolidation plan and what their plans are for development to get a good forecasting of housing booms.

We went from 19 loans (between my wife and I) to just 7 loans (although one of those was a consolidation loan for 5 properties).After the first year we actually switched to more single family homes because competition on the multi’s was just too high… there were far more single family properties available at prices that were cheaper than a comparative duplex (ie. 2 singles would cost us less than a duplex) ,By 2022 the market appreciation had found its way into the seller’s asking prices and for 2 years we bought no units.