You can also find real estate investing groups through meetup.com, Facebook, or a Google search.

Real estate is a long term wealth building strategy and in that one year you can learn a lot about home improvement and land lording. 

Are you seeing any emerging trends or opportunities tied to these lifestyle improvements, such as increased demand for certain property types or neighborhoods?

@Matthew Ferguson do you have any updates on your search?

Small improvements or updates can justify slightly higher rents too.

Village to Village Network (https://www.vtvnetwork.org/) and Men’s Sheds Association (https://usmenssheds.org/) are successful models of people building community to improve the aging experience.So drawing on Dr Thomas and Nancy’s work and incorporating cohousing and pocket neighborhood elements into my communities, I have chosen to use shipping container homes in areas along the Texas coast where storms frequently cause wind and water damage.

Take advantage of it, search old posts (learn from history), and read as much as possible because that's how you get unstuck and out of analysis paralysis. 

The refi or additional debt of any kind will impact the current performance of your property I'm never a great fan of selling a good producing property - unless I am certain I can improve the overall performance of my portfolio. 

May be more if you wanna search. https://www.biggerpockets.com/topics/386835

As the market improves, you might also have a chance to refinance and lower your payments.