Good luck if you decide to continue!  

My background is residential HVAC tech/installer for 4 years (continue to do HVAC as well)  I quite doing HVAC full time to follow my passion.

So I guess my main motivation for joining this site is to find ways to continue investing in property, despite having put most of my free cash on hand into these 3 investment properties. 

2 ways... quicken property management. it's like excel, but presented better. tons of features and a cake compared to quickbooksreceipts - a portable scanner... everything gets filed in special hard drive under year, month, $xx - place of business - date. this way i can find every receipt in 2.6 seconds.

Ok, I'll continue to play along.

With a WordPress site, you own the hosting and most of the content you just use their CMS (Content management system).This allows you to be a bit more flexible with the places you host and how exactly you market you site, unlike the sites like Wix or SquareSpace.WordPress also makes it extremely easy to manage any leads, integrate new plug ins and really add valuable features to your site.Here is an example of breakdown costs:Wordpress Theme: $5-$50 (One time)Hosting from HostGator: $5-10/moDomain name - Namecheap: $14/yrCustom email address - Google Apps; $5/mo.MailChimp - to collect the emails and allow you to send out emails to a mass audience: $10/mo. or FREEYou of course don't have to do everything here, but it's a good example of the costs.

you will not regret being more lean with the budget as you continue your journey.  

Factors include: neighborhood, size, amenities, school districts, age of home, SF, number of beds/baths, and all kinds of other features that may be unique to your area (pools in Florida, for example). 

I continue to include the return address.  

Once there is enough equity in this property/accumulated cash, I would purchase another, and continue to repeat this process.