You will probably maximize the sales price this way too as house hackers have lower down payment options than non-owner occupied investors. 

And as long as wages are going up faster than home prices, people regain purchase power little by little every year.

REsimpli seems great, but to use it fully you'll have multiple add-on charges.Pathwaize is fully centralized, AI-powered sales & marketing CRM platform without the add-on charges.

@Erica MorrisonI have two short-term rentals for sale in Dubuque, Iowa adjacent to one-another and close to our hospitals and colleges if you'd consider something OOS.

A property’s context is more powerful than the property itself.

If you sale do the 2 years residence out of 5 to forgo $250k per spouse for capital gains, believe you can get another $250k for them.  

That's right, what I described is just a normal sale except that the seller is financing the sale instead of a bank.

This only becomes powerful when you hyper localize it like Jaycee said.

Because every winter there are storms and we lose power for a couple days and the pipes can freeze. 

The real beauty of real estate is that you can benefit from appreciation while also using depreciation to reduce your taxable income.Other powerful concepts many investors miss include strategically timing capital gains to be offset, leveraging 1031 exchanges, and using creative financing strategies to keep your portfolio growing.And like Janet mentioned, it really depends on several moving parts, your other income sources, where you are in your investment journey, and what other investments or businesses you have.