Since then, I've consumed a LOT of content from BP/others and have learned a lot about the different paths of REI.

The neighborhood is growing with new establishments such as the New East Side Market getting ready to open right up the street from your prospected investment.

I was looking in the fells point, federal hill, canton, locus point area, since I’ll be living in it for a bit, but do you think my property will appreciate buying a 150,000-200,000 property in an already established area when other growing areas of the city are going for 40,000-100,000 ?

Not only in DC proper, but in all the VA & MD suburbs.I would suggest visiting the wholesaling forum & consume all the info there.

@Jason Powell I Have found that high paying W-2 looks great on paper but is also super demanding and time consuming. 

I find that totally false in my opinion.The older demographic is the largest growing audience and most profitable on facebook.

Just to hear some different professional opinions here, what would be your next step if you want to grow but also reduce debt?

For several years, I have self-managed my growing portfolio.  

and to understand how they fit together in your toolbox, as none will give you everything (e.g, insurance is required and it will cover you for many situations, but not always; asset protection (LLC) is litigation insurance and complements regular insurance, by minimizing the target and making it unappealing).If you are a new investor, probably you will not have a lot of assets and/or equity to worry about (but even that is relative and subjective to each person tolerance to risk) so I would not worry about that till you pass that risk threshold (in my opinion 100K+ in equity, maybe 50K if you are really risk adverse) and you should be primarily concerned with finding good deals and growing your business first.

But maybe holding us back a little bit from really growing with now 1 duplex and 9 SFH’s.