North vs South: Where should I be concentrating on? 

So I will not have to pay the capital gains tax if I sell if now (CA).Average stock market return is 7-8% (historical data).Too much investments concentrated on real estate.

Unless you specialize and invest a lot of experience and knowledge into STNLs, I think the risks are just too highly concentrated to dabble in that space.

Concentrate on finding a good flip property.

I concentrate mostly on site selection and data analytics for retail medicine. 

VRBO, AirBNB and Homeaway (kinda defunct) are what we get.If you simply concentrate on the 2 main OTA's, you will be just fine.

I love that you are in Jacksonville because you have a large military concentration there with the Navy base.

That means that in a couple years most government debt will be at the higher interest rates, since they didn't sell many long term bonds, but concentrated on shorter term bonds for the last few decades.

I get your frustration, but look at the bigger picture and concentrate on making this unit the best it can be while looking for unit number 3.

i would concentrate on the first property that's almost ready and get it done and rented so you have some income coming in. as long as you can afford to keep the other one then hold it.