It's been a pretty cool journey and has allowed me to leave my W2, however, I've come to the realization that my current strategy of delayed gratification is no longer working for me.

However, if you minimize your vacancy exposure, you may find (just like I have witnessed for years) that it is a much easier and more beneficial strategy.

I agree with @Ashish Acharya if you're interested in reinvesting the proceeds into another investment property and your goal is to minimize your tax liability a 1031 would work out well for you.

Keep your payment at no more than 35% of your income and minimize your credit card and auto debt.  

Throwing good money after bad to delay a negative report.  

They start making demands and often unresaonable demands, and they delay and never want to sign on the day you need them to sign. 

I've added a few things for very minimal cost that guests really love and increased revenue ~34% year over year.

You can delay the sales of the properties for your convenience.If you put all the properties on the market now and one property gets under contract before the others, you can sing into the contract that you can potentially delay the closing date by a certain amount of days.Best of luck!

If you have insights on creative ways to acquire rental properties or storage facility businesses with minimal capital, I’d love to hear from you.

Quote from @Rajagopalarao Paidi: Is there anyway to minimize or avoid agent costs, I don't have much scope for profit if I pay agent costs, what options typically one has Do it FSBO if you want to save them and then hire a TC or company to do the work...