Congrats - have you completed the deal yet (4 leases in place, STRS up and running)? 

There's too many investors who are front page news in Northern states re CFDs gone bad and Texas where lease options went bad and the state enacted buyer protections...Take care to all.   

Depending on your debt to income, you might have to sell or have an executed lease to secure financing to buy the second home.

All contact, maintenance, inspection, lease, anything is handled in a queue....not a call.

There’s normally action items that can be implemented into your management process that are more effective. 

You'll learn a lot just from starting out like that with little to no experience at all (cosmetic renovation cost, managing current tenants, leasing out a unit).

Live in one side and renovate that side, then after the lease for the other unit is up move into that one and renovate it.

Master Lease with Option. 

These marketers would have the novice investor believe that the narrow focused “education” they provide combined with the “holy grail” formula (wholesaling, subject to, flipping, lease option, discounted note purchase, etc.) is most, if not all, anyone needs to become “independent” and successful, usually by month 12.

Review what happened and determine why each item was above or below your expectations so that you can properly plan for next year.Review your prior year goals.Did you buy all of the properties you set out to purchase?