It made me think about my own strengths and weaknesses and wonder how I can tailor my efforts to better match them. 

Size isn't the only way to show strength.

Here's my dream:Continue to make a positive impact on lives via world-class coaching and thoughtful strength training programs while being a present father and husband (to my future family). 

The only reason I studied engineering was because my strength in grade school was math and I didn't really know what I wanted to do.

I would figure out a list of your respective strengths and select your job titles from that list.....

Experience also gives you a sense of what you like and where you're strengths lie in this business.  

Define YOUR investment strategy for YOUR circumstance using YOUR strengths.

This separates your operations from your assets (once again, while conducted correctly) to provide an additional stop-gap and separate liability.https://www.biggerpockets.com/renewsblog/asset-pro...I love Texas for the Series LLC it offers and the strength it has, but also check out this article.https://www.biggerpockets.com/renewsblog/best-states-forming-llcs/

Ideally, you want several employers to spread the risk associated with a dominant industrySupply and DemandCensus.gov under the “Selected Housing Characteristics” tableDetermine by analyzing the five-year rental vacancy rates and median rental rates in the market, as well as the year-on-year change in the number of building permits created for commercial properties (five or more units)The number of five or more unit building permits won’t tell us much on it’s own.However, a huge red flag to you would be when you see an increase in the number of permits in combination with an increasing vacancy rate and/or a decrease in median rentsAs vacancy increases, median rent and new building permits should decrease… and vice versaBest Case:Low or decreasing vacancy rates and increasing median rentsDecent Case:High vacancy rate that is decreasing Stagnant vacancy rateWorst Case:Increasing vacancy rate and/or decreasing median rent An increase in the number of building permits (5+ units) in combination with an increasing vacancy rate and/or a decrease in median rentsMiscellaneousResearch Other Characteristics relevant to the strength or weakness of a marketExamples:Landlord vs. tenant-friendly state?

Strength in numbers so to say.