Dave Stech speaks on a number of RE podcasts, many times on MC Laubscher's Cash Flow Ninja podcast (one recently #848 on September 16, 2024). 

WE are all cash other than I have some smaller unsecured LOC's that I rarely use they total less than a million..

My core investing philosophy is pretty simple, and has done very well across almost two decades and numerous cities:1) Invest in cities with population (and job) growth2) Invest in parts of the city where household income is near the median (or slightly below)3) Invest in properties that provide cash flow from day 1 Thank you for sharing that. 

Purchase price: $110,000 Cash invested: $2,000,000 399 Helmericks Ave includes 3 warehouse/shops totaling 60,000 sq.ft. and office space totaling 7,000 sq.ft.

https://www.qcnews.com/news/investigations/unfinished-business-multiple-homeowners-claim-nc-builder-took-bank-draws-cash-and-left-their-homes-unfinished/?

Are you cash flowing the property?

I hadn't considered STR arbitrage until about 6 months ago, and I do like the idea of adding that cash flow play into my portfolio moving forward.

Purchase price: $8,000 Cash invested: $20,000 In 2013, I decided to put much of what I had learned from books into action by purchasing a two-bedroom home—not as a traditional investment property, but as a home for my mother.

The way I'm looking at it, if my spouse and I only do employer matching for the 10 years we would have more than enough in there and still 10 years out from being able to access it.I do plan on doing 401k loans for deals if the numbers check out, and I've considered rolling over some of our 401ks into roth IRAs to access our contributions but we'd have to pay taxes out of pocket (a big hit to cash flow) and we couldn't touch it for 5 years.  

Many people are actually cash out refinancing and LOOSING the great interest rates they have on their 1st mortgage.