In my 2nd year, I closed 42.....monthly budget started to increase as the more deals I closed, and slowly but surely I was able to build a business.

This is your notice that because of inflation and rising costs, your rent will be increasing $400/mo starting in 30/60/90 days.

From the commercial side you have more ability to force appreciation by increasing the NOI. 

It's increasingly hard to find genuine note offerings. 

By effectively utilizing space, we can often increase the number of units or functional areas within a property without expanding its footprint.

PS is revolutionary because of how it has simplified access to all of the various data points investors need to make a decision and because of this its extremely popular.You do not want to be using a popular lead source to increase deals because everyones chasing the same deals.And nothing will change with there data because there business model forces them to have to buy and license the data they get which means waiting for the county/databroker to send it to them which guarantees anyone using PS data will be behind the counties, only getting a fraction of the leads and getting those late leads the same time as everyone else.How do you get access to the leads first.

After that's under control, focus on increasing income through additional work at your current job, taking on a side hustle, or finding ways to increase income on your existing rental.At the same time, educate yourself.

Low down payment, but you would be increasing the value of the property with your own cash.

That housing stock is new enough and you will probably not be dealing with a lower asset class which will increase tenant caused maintenance in the long term. 

The use of the accelerated depreciation strategy helps real estate investors to reduce the tax liability immediately which therefore increases their bottom line due to the offsetting of income.