One thing I am not getting now that I was getting in 2005/2006 - near daily offers of 125% loan-to-value refinancing for my primary residence.

It will be a bit of a hassle with some sacrifice, but it is the easiest way to buy rental property and when you look back, you will likely feel that the sacrifice was minimal and you should be in a better financial situation to buy a nicer home for your residence than you are able to purchase now. 

The newer units on my residence are the newer freon and came with 10year warranties, so there is that.

Today, my husband went to the resident and his employees were not working, the same thing has hapend on previous weeks. 

Hello BP Members,I reside in San Gabriel Valley in california, about 15 minutes east of downtown LA.There is a good decent sized apartment complex not to far from where i live, i drive by there quite often, its on a corner lot right in the middle of EVERYTHING in a decent part of town!

I'm new to these forums and hoped to ask my first question - for those that have already reached their goals of financial independence, or are are getting close and making plans, I'm curious to hear where you have chosen to live and locate your primary residence or where you're eyeing to do so? 

Paid off both the rental and the primary residence so now am sitting on a decent amount of equity and would like to start taking investing quite a bit more seriously and buy for cash flow so I can eventually get out of my job and let the properties pay my bills

All things being equal, I like the idea of buying a personal residence, fix up anything you'd like on the property and refinance and pull money out for your next property. 

I was under the impression that under the new tax laws HELOC interest was only deductible if the HELOC was against your primary residence.

I'll be retiring and am looking for steady, less hands on cash flow.My question is, currently in this area, will it be smarter to keep the tenants in residence and sell as an investment property, or move the tenants out, repaint, and sell as a home or investment property?