Our state has been slow to adapt green technology.

If they start negotiating directly with your contractors to lower costs, it might slow things down and risk losing your trusted vendors.

It's all great advice above, but I wanted to add a recommendation that I don't see as often: don't go cheap on your washer and dryer.Nobody wants to work 12+ hours and then go home and fight a tiny washer and a slow dryer.

Yes, the market is slow for a lot of buyers.

As the market cooled in 2023, price growth slowed to 8.3%, and sales volume decreased by 15% from the 2021 highs.

Here are my options as I see them.1) Build up a separate capex reserve fundI have about 13k in savings and 25k in Roth IRA funds which I can withdraw tax free as a backup, but maybe I should build up a separate capex account since I don't have a designated one.2) Purchase another 2-4 familyI could use my 25k Roth funds as down payment on a 5th property that cash flows around $500/month and look to do a BRRRR.

It's a numbers game, instead of 600 x 12 you'll be withdrawing 2,000 x 12.

Things have been slow trying to build my real estate portfolio through single family and small multi fam.

A slow leak has caused $2.5K damage to a rental property of mine.

The start is slow but it grows.