My advice is to analyze your equity, focus on high-growth areas, educate yourself, and start small.

I will say though, based on every point you've tried to make before this your credibility and ability to tell if a PM is good or not is incredibly questionable.

If you're after rental income and long-term growth, Branson is a great option.

Not only is the growth in the amount of tourists, digital nomads, remote workers and retirees not slowing down in the face of these issues, it's actually accelerating.7.

My challenge is that the equity is siloed in a high number of properties which complicates our ability to draw against it and leverage that for operational and investment purposes.Do you all know of banks willing to work with investors and able to underwrite at the portfolio level, rather than having to apply for and open HELOCs on a per-property basis?

Depending on your estimate of the ARV and the ability to raise the rent on the 1BR, this looks like a "lendable" deal, IMO. 

San Antonio is a growth market.

The city is still economically not showing the types of growth that you’ll find in areas like the Lehigh valley which in my book are a huge pro.

I bought in a location where market growth increases faster than average.

@Kyle Kline“Investing for equity and not cash flow” doesn’t mean “buy properties that don’t cash flow.”To me, invest for equity not cash flow means that the PRIMARY reason to invest is for equity growth and an increase in net worth and NOT cash flow.I’ve been investing for over 40 years and while cash flow is important, it’s not why invest.A property must be self supporting ie produce enough cash flow to cover debt service, operational expenses including repairs and replacements.