Going full-time with numerous clients is a different beast when it comes to marketing, etc, but it doesn't sound like you necessarily want to scale that side of things.When you add in the fact that I was able to save 2.7% on the acquisition price and 3% of the re-sale price on every rehab project we completed (30+ properties/60+ transactions over 4 years), I came out way ahead.

If you can make it, the rewards are far greater when you hold onto it long-term.

So if the difference between current and market rent is truly $500, we would raise rent $250.You don't want to stall out on making progress toward market rent, but we like to keep good tenants a bit below market rent both as a reward and as an incentive to stay since they won't find comparable units if they shop around.

Having said that, life is not all about the money, and as others have said, spending some time and effort to help another person experiencing a tragedy can be as rewarding to you as it is to them.

Gain is allocated to nonqualified use by multiplying it by a fraction, with the aggregate periods of nonqualified use as the numerator and the total period the taxpayer owned the property as the denominator.

It also has numerous benefits like low CapEx and Repairs.

@Costin IorgulescuAs I noted, if investing in rental property will produce better results in terms of risk/reward than continuing to invest in the stock market only, then it is the right move.There is no apples-to-apples comparison between you personally investing in real estate and your IRA investing in real estate, just as comparing you investing in stocks with personal funds would also be very different from you investing in stocks with your IRA. 

There are numerous Meetups in your area that you could attend that would help. 

With the highs/lows and risks/rewards that comes with that. 

Dollar profit might be bigger but the %age profit is smaller and for a larger outlay (higher risk) most people would want a higher reward.