That is what will enable you to retire young, debt free and not managing hundreds of houses!

When municipalities use tactics to extract money from you that you have abandoned any hope of receiving corresponding benefits, you need to change your own tactics to protect your own interests.

This implies an average SFR purchase from 3 years prior would have had to be on the order of at least $500/month negative to not to have cash flow (excluding for a refinance that extracted money).There is a big difference between initial cash flow and actual cash flow. 

Relationships will probably get you a job (or find you a mentor, or partner, or enable you to start your own business). 

Is that what enables the cashflow to increase so dramatically? 

;) Thanks to pitching in, and BP for the platform that enables such an exchange! 

Note: There is definitely a lot of upside in the area right now due to overflow from Seattle and better transit options into the city, but I don't want to bet on this with the market being where it is right now.Our current house hack has worked out great and enabled us to save a ton of money.

I don't focus so much on not spending money as I do on extracting maximum value from every dollar I spend.

The exciting part is doing a 1031 enabling me to buy two for the sale of one and purchasing one as full cash.

If I ask them to fix the leaks and they say no, aren't we just back where we were or does that actually enable then to leave the deal?