Agree with the above posts; you can find cheaper options than ring or nest.

It can be good to let the cashflow build up a little bit to have a nest egg.

I highly recommend against this tactic as you are going to swing a bat at a hornets nest or worse, knocking on their door.

Build a nest egg so your first investment doesn't wipe you out.

Just trust us with your nest egg.  

Everyone has shared some valuable insights, so I won't rehash that.I'm curious though if you want to make payments monthly to build your nest? 

We do Self storage and deal with wasp and yellow jacket nests throughout the summer.  

Just like you, she can do RE as a side gig and learn a lot more while she keeps her own nest egg going and her lendability strong with a regular job.You should loop her into a major document with all of the properties and all of the profit and loss and go through them one by one and talk about whether to sell or keep, and also base it on geography for her and your collective choice of management.

We also use the spectrum supplied modem, but we supplement it with the google nest mesh wifi system.

I was raised by "Poor Dad (parents)" who taught me those concepts growing up, and is still mostly their values, but they were also lucky enough to have lived in a time where that worked well enough for them as they retired with a very nice nest egg.