Sounds like you've done the research and gotten prepared I'm assuming you have a good calculator and know how to analyze properties as well After that it's just experience - Experience is the best teacher 

More preacher than teacher.

Knowing that as a teacher I'm not going to always have enormous amounts of capital lying around, I've been trying to research other options and listen to specific podcasts regarding that issue.

The only con that I have is that he's an inexperienced public speaker/teacher so it drove me a bit crazy with how her presented the information; he rambled a bit.

Again, the basics of my situation are:- full time high school teacher.- 9 rental properties total. (16 doors total.  3 are Short Term Rentals)- Married filing jointly- one daughter in college. 

I think the best advice you gave me was, as a fellow teacher, to get my financial house in order before I even considered investing in real estate.

Our kids get the BS 'go to school and get a degree' mantra from their teachers and our families all the time and they come home to ask my wife and I what we think about it. 

I am a high school mathematics teacher in Dallas, TX, but take advantage of the lower cost of living in Irving, TX. 

The only better teacher you will find is action.

And REIAs are just like the Gurus, attorneys, doctors, politicians, teachers or anyone else.