Now that my facility is 93% occupied and my delinquents are minimal it's a great business. 

The problem is paying taxes--the more you make the more you pay --its a fact unless you figure out away to minimize your taxes.  

I have owned and operated a construction company, a property management company, and a mortgage broker company as well.I want to improve my real estate business with the use of technologies to minimize cost and maximize efficiency thus increasing my free time.  

You can diversify between several notes to minimize the risk of any one not performing.

Minimizes risk....

This is how I did the first house which needed extensive renovations and took me a year to complete.The second rental house I just purchased using my HELOC needed minimal work and I was able to do all the repairs and I have a signed lease and the tenant is moving in 30 days after I purchased the house.

If you could somehow negotiate both sides paying all closing costs, yours would be minimal.

The property is fully rented and I am getting a 35% ROI.So, my question for all the BPers out there, especially the ones who purchased properties with minimal to no knowledge like myself, knowing what you know now, would you have made the decision to purchase your first property?

I am not sure if Google will have another campus ro continue to build where they are at.IIRC, there were 4 states that had minimal impact on the last recession - TX, OK, LA, and NM.  

The places I've purchased only have required minor work so contractor cost was minimal.