I joined this site first to learn... no matter how smart I think I am, there is always someone around the next corner who can teach me a thing or five.

See, if someone teaches you the ropes about how to find great investments, they can use you (and your newly-acquired skills) to help them find great properties to invest it.

But I'll probably be best off just taking your advice and moving on for something with more cashflow, in a better area, and more typical style.

First, free yourself from debt by creating a strategy in paying it off, "I will teach you to be rich by Ramit Sethi" is THE BOOK to read on that. 

Great example of not just putting perfume on a pig, and yet having the vision to bring the building up to updated style with minimum(ish...) changes. 

Vinyl click-lock style goes into kitchens and bathrooms (looks better and is higher quality to sheet vinyl).Higher end properties get hardwoods or bamboo throughout and tile in the kitchen and baths.All options are more expensive than carpets...but you will replace the carpets almost every time you change tenants.

And teach them how to obtain that proof, or hand it to them.  

Who teaches that?

Ambrose Evans-Prichard at the Telegraph said this last week: "The US seems caught in a Japan-style trap, endlessly masking the effect by stealing a little extra growth from the future with artificial stimulus" Then he had this: "Former Fed chairman Ben Bernanke said recently that long-term yields would never reach 4pc again in his lifetime, portraying a changed world where nothing returns to normal." http://www.biggerpockets.com/blogs/5055/blog_posts/37898-interest-rates-must-be-going-up-soon-right Good hunting-

Otherwise you have the untrained investor trying to teach the untrained agent.