While you're working on those two important things continue to educate yourself through the podcasts/books and practicing analyzing but also keep your eye out for a great deal.

Tell your agents and brokers that you will refuse to list your properties with them if they continue to syndicate your properties to Trulia and Zillow. 

Thanks to @Matt Horton and his wife, we had a nice get together.I hope we continue to grow our group and help each other to prosper in our REI endeavors.

Why continue to accept the application fee from them if you already know they don't qualify at the outset?

Continue to bring more units to market in manageable increments. 

Good for you by beating him and wining the right to continue to pay his mortgage.

Look who the buyer/sellers are and you will be able to find out quickly if they run a syndication style business. 

And be sure interest continues to accrue until paid. 

That being said, I believe there is still some solid long term appreciation potential in the neighborhoods closer to the BeltLine's Westside Trail and recently purchased Southside Trail, as well as those near certain film studios, such as the Tyler Perry Studios.There are plenty of smaller cities in Georgia and the Southeast that continue to have 2% properties, but their locations, amenities, and economic outlooks will likely not be as promising as ATL's.

My properties are mostly SF Houses & Townhouses or Townhouse-Style Duplexes, so no properties where one tenant's ceiling is another's floor.