First, deep relationships with people so that you know them well, they know you well, and relationship continues for many years.  

If you stick with the larger down payments, you’ll have more stability and less risk, especially if the market shifts, but it will slow down how quickly you can buy additional properties.

Transaction volumes will continue to be slowed, but homes that are priced in the $160,000-$250,000 range continue to perform best right now for resale.

Due to item 1, adding an ADU can require years to start achieving any return (once the accumulated cash flow recovers the initial negative position).4) Adding an ADU is a slow process.

Then you can take that cash and buy quality real estate, accumulate the cash flow and grow your portfolio-wide before you grow it deep - meaning paying off loans. 

But it probably also slows down the rebuilding.

Its good that you've already established some target markets, I'd recommend diving deep into 1 or 2 markets, then branching out. 

While the real estate market usually slows down this time of year, we are seeing a lot of buyers taking advantage of homes that have been sitting on the market longer.

Hostaway started off slow and never really got better.

This will help keep the grass shorter and easier to spray.For teak, the first 5 years you have to stay on top of the grass and weeds, or the trees will get stunted or slowed.