Vitaliy, gave you solid advice and did a good job of explaining some of the key issues.

It does however give you a degree of independence to choose what you want to do.As your portfolio grows you'll also feel the weight of future capex responsibility more, which ironically points you to growing more cash flow through more real estate.The other issue is that you are chasing a moving goalpost.

Learn by experience and making mistakes.One issue is most people who buying coaching only buy one program or max 2, so it's pretty hard to rank them.If you are convinced this is what you want to do, I'd look at Lifestyles, Total Wealth Academy and Brad Sumrok's programs. 

There are cheaper one’s in D/F areas but I would be careful as those can create a laundry list of additional issues.

I think the issue here is how long Dad has been out of work.

It was rather inexpensive, and we never had any issues with the tenants.

Our average construction time is about 8 months after permit is issued and we are always improving.

For higher-end properties in Cincinnati, everyone seems to claim they can handle it, but then there are performance issues. 

And my #1 issue is I don't see any actions to address this in a meaningful, market specific manner. 

Since the properties are in New York you have a few extra steps you need to do to keep all of your funds out of NYs hands at closing.Here's an interesting BP thread on the South Carolina property tax issue you mentioned. https://www.biggerpockets.com/forums/725/topics/604427-south....