While many anticipate adhering to the 1% rule, in today's market, achieving that is exceedingly challenging.

I love the leverage one can achieve with real estate, and I still love the asset class.

It will be beneficial to achieving your goals.

Think about your goals, what YOU personally want to achieve, and make a plan that gives you the best odds for that to succeed. 

I tossed LEED in favor of Energy Star as it seems easier to achieve.

You must have achieved return significant to cover selling cost.  

In general, the 100 hours tends to be the easiest to achieve but if you have 101 hours tracked and the IRS discredits 2, now you cannot offset the W-2 as planned.

Can't you achieve $1350/mo or more by turning half of it into a long-term rental?

The income is the same, the difference is how hard you work to achieve it.Parting thought, I also purposefully lag the top of the rental market in my personal portfolio...if a property I have owned for 4 years was rented at $900 and has a good resident then even though the value of that property may be $1250 I am still going to put this specific resident at $1050 so both the resident and my portfolio are winners each year and we have incentive to keep it that way.

We always want more, bigger, longer etc.Congrats on what you have achieved!