I got sidetracked running my business and ultimately lost touch with my long term goal of REI.

Buy and Hold deals don't really require any special talent and could eventually provide you with positive cash flow and give you an increase in value that could allow you to retire comfortably with all of your properties managed by a property management company doing the daily management and sending you some checks every month that you can survive on and, hopefully, doing whatever you want to do. 

Ultimately it's you who has the decision power over who you'll let live in your units, but let a broker and his agents do all the hard work.

Have you already read the Ultimate Beginner's Guide https://www.biggerpockets.com/real-estate-investing, it would be a good place to start.

My ultimate goal is to out of 9 to 5 in 5 years!

I am not a licensed agent but I went through the classes but ultimately decided not to take the test because I just wanted MLS access. 

hey everyone hows it going hopefully great ,thats all good points but what about a person like me that has been born and raised and survived in a war zone and sees no problem making money in a war zone , I looked around and asked the same questions to other individuals but got a very short answer now do they just not want to give there secret out or do they just not want to tell me ?

Unfortunately, My wife and 3 kids would probably not survive living in 1/4 of a Quad lol.

@Thomas S.That would be the ultimate objective but, with the complex fully occupied, should I do that, I could be facing a very high vacancy rate until all the tenants are out.

Ultimately the zoning matters if you plan to develop the lot, or sell to someone as a developable lot.