This is a great first step into your financial future.

With the money from my savings and stocks I have about 100k . 

If you go to meetups, you will find friends and future partners.

I think this is a calculation a lot of homeowners are making right now--especially if they have a low interest mortgage, equity, and their house will cashflow as a rental.The choice is a personal one of course, but I think your future self will thank you if you pull out some equity from your existing home with a HELOC for the downpayment on the next house and a cushion renting your current home, use a property manager as you have other things to do, and buy the next house and do the same thing again.

When the housing market became seller friendly, I unloaded 5/6 of our long term rental units, paid off our house with that and invested in stocks and mutual funds…completely no fun, right??

Wishing you all the luck in your future. 

If you ever want to connect, I'd be happy to do so and be of any assistance in getting you started on your future. 

Investing does need to be approached more like a business than just a simple stock trade.

Your project will never turn out as good as it should because you are subject to what the stores have in stock at that very moment.3.

Real estate is not the stock market and it's called buy & hold and not buy & sell for a reason.I did sell a few properties about 10 years ago when I learned the hard way that going into cheaper neighborhoods was not the right strategy for me, so that was basically a strategy correction and it was necessary, but also costly both in terms of dollars and time.