Would paying them down give you a sense of relief, or are you more focused on expanding your portfolio?

So I’d love some contacts if folks are willing to share as I’d love to expand my portfolio in Cleveland. 

Also it would mean I get a different tenant pool for example travel medical professionals, displaced people due to insurance claims, digital nomads, etc and I really want to expand my knowledge outside of long term tenants and challenge myself to have a diverse portfolio of real estate! 

It’s great to see you looking to expand your network.

Based on where you at now, paying off your mortgage and continue to grow steadily will easily get you there in the next 10 years with minimum stress and headache (minus WWIII happening, JK)If you are someone who are aspire to maximize growth, have a f*k you money and want to get into politics and expand your influences, and also prepared to embrace the headache and stress that come with that lifestyle, then you wouldn't want to pay off the mortgage but put your money somewhere else that would give you maximum return.

Tesla's expanding footprint in the area in recent years has made Central Texas a hub for the electric vehicle industry.Examples of the biggest recent projects in the Tesla sphere are: the company itself taking more than 1 million square feet at Kyle/35 Logistics Park; supplier US Farathane Corp. taking an entire 410,000-square-foot building in Georgetown; and Hanwha Advanced Materials LLC building a $100 million, 200,000-square-foot advanced high-tech manufacturing facility near Georgetown.

Hence the post, I want to know what got others to their specialty to help me pick my focus point.I think My end goal is to get to apartments but without exp and outside investors that isn’t feasible.  

Even just attending local meetups or Chamber of Commerce events to get acquainted with their crews could be a good way to expand your circle.

Reliable property management companies make out-of-state investing simple by handling everything from tenant relations to maintenance, so you can focus on expanding your investments.5.

as we have always sefl-managed our portfolio of rentals but are now beginning to expand into helping other landlords work more efficiently.We are a small, locally-based property management company specializing in single-family homes, duplexes, and triplexes.