If you verify you are treating them fairly, that may be all they need.If the clients want to save money, offer a trade off - they take on lawn care, and you reduce rent by the amount saved monthly (unless you were planning a rent increase to keep on track with your financial goals).

And there's not really a chart of what qualifies for shorter depreciation, it's more like "assets used in distributive trades and professional services, not including section 1250 assets." are 5 year assets.

The day will come.While you are waiting, learning and saving try to get a job in the trades so you can get some experience.

Of course there's always grunt work to be done so you have to be comfortable and aligned on what the trade off of working vs learning is.

Lastly, have you considered just selling them all and trading up to a single MF property?

I am also debating trading up into multi-family once I am comfortable enough.

Keith, the quick math I like to use is figure out what valuation multiple a given cap rate is, so if deals trade for ~8% cap rates in markets you review, that's 12.5x, 9% is ~11 x, etc..

So he took the key to my old car and new title saying he isn't going to give me the title back to my new car until he sells the car I traded him for. 

I am a 29 year old Mechanical Engineer by degree and a Robotics Engineer/software programmer by trade. 

I would find it hard to say interest rates are a deal breaker, especially on residential loans where they are traded far less like a competitive product and more like a commodity.