Great energy with this group.

Understand the local market conditions, including property values, rental demand, economic trends, and neighborhood dynamics.

Getting an MBA would not help me one bit, so I'd say that's probably a waste of time, money and energy. 

As I go through this journey I have also decided to educate myself in real estate investment so that I can be best prepared for July 2020, this is the point when I will be debt-free and will be shifting all my energy to actively investing in real estate utilizing the BRRR method.To that end, I have made it a goal to analyze 2 properties per day so I can become familiar with my area and become comfortable analyzing properties...and that is where my issue is.

The rents are relatively low, appreciation has stagnated, lack of economic vibrance, and diversity of economy.

Identify markets with expanding industries, positive growth trends, and bright economic forecasts.Columbus, Ohio is a great market to consider if you're leaning towards appreciation.

The ocean surface temperature in the Atlantic is already at a record high in basically late spring and that provides a lot of energy for big storms..

You're asking someone to spend a lot of time and energy to share what they've spent years - maybe decades - learning and developing.

They are one part of the story and does keeping the investment fit into the other dimensions of your life, meaning do you want to be a landlord and do you have time, energy and skills. 

what is really needed is :- online forum like biggerpocket or similar like seekingalpha.com for stock- a private only investor forum for more very niche / advanced topics- just by following some smart and experienced people in these forum (les say Jay/Steve/Marcus) these are what's needed- even now, these days twitter has be come a very good resource for real estate too as both side of argumentation (long or sell) is always available, twitter is especially very resourful for very advanced economics explanation and also commercial RE.