It’s a blessing (the reason you found real estate in the first place) and a curse (you probably get distracted easily on what asset class to focus on).

This meant roughly 4% of the county's single-family homes faced foreclosure in 2010.

I meant to respond but just got back from a long business trip. 

That precludes smaller places.

I just meant to say that it's our next goal to build that up, having just gone on a spending spree on fixing up both properties in a short period of time.

I apologized and said (and truly meant) I'd follow up on it and improve for the future.

Meant to add 16$ panel pair and 26$ panel pair, so big pop for little money.  

Maybe they meant a different context.

May be you meant that the IRA has deferred-tax funds and not Roth?

Remember, the first deal is not meant to make you money, it’s meant to get you into the 6% club (only 6% of Americans own one or more rental properties)  Get into the club and figure out which direction you want to scale.If I were to start all over again, knowing what I know now, and assuming I had some good cash to work with (I was broke as a joke when I started), I would have done small commercial all the way.