While this meetup idea comes to fruition, would love to pick your brain about the Kingston area as I get fluent with it from a RE perspective. 

That said the best way to pick your accounting software is to find a Tax CPA you like and ask them what they prefer.

However, if you've picked up on signs of potentially problematic behavior during your interactions, you might be able to highlight them by adding “good tenant conduct” to your list of standards. 

I would pick a market area you like and start doing a bunch of deep dive deal analysis, but from a rental and not a life style standpoint.  

Remember when land buyers pick a target, they have TONS of work to do getting that property from dirt to payday, so they know their purchase choices, and they have a war chest usually stacked up ready to go.

Maybe I can even pick up some tips on how to be a better loan officer as well.

At the numbers you are talking about and where the market is heading you could pick up some very high quality NNN national credit tenant properties as commercial continues to recover. 

How confident are you that you'll be able to pick up something good in the 2-4 unit space? 

Now that I laid out the various details important to a listing, i bet you'll notice and pick em out as you view through this.  

And then drive by to pick them all up.