You won't be 6 months of hard work from buying, you'll be 6 YEARS. from buying a property. 

I am not suggesting that you cannot diversify however are you looking for cash flow or is buying now, holding for appreciation and or forcing appreciation is your play.Good luck on your journey!

I already have a hand shake deal on the next property, another duplex, that I will buy come summer time.  

There are two types of return from a rental propertyCash Flow & Appreciation.I normally also aim for a minimum of 8% return between Cash-Flow and Appreciation.Appreication, nationally, is around 2% to 3% annually.Therefore, your goal is to get the cash-flow to be about 5% to 6%.The issue is interest rates being very high, you would therefore, need to buy at a pricepoint where the numbers still make sense.You can always put down more of a downpayment to cash flow, but that will impact your cash on cash return calculations.Best of luck!

We are not looking to buy in class c or d.

There are no problems being a landlord , just buy a property take the first renter that applies and rake in the cash . 

We aren't the traditional flippers who run in, throw up a lick of paint, hide the disastrous side of things and essentially trick people into buying a lemon.

As-is cap rate of 7.5% in my market (kc) would be pretty awesome to buy. 

After that time, some mom & pop ice cream stand owner will be fined $50,000 by the law for not updating the FinCen after their driver license expired. 

I also like to be set higher than most of my competition because I only buy really cool properties that are sought after.