@Karen Margrave crushing college debt, delayed adult decision making, chronic alcohol abuse, pushed political agendas.

It's not as fast-paced as tech investing, but I think there are still a lot of challenges to keep things interesting :)Since you're based in New York, I'm wondering what drew you to put an offer on a Rhode Island property.

All three had the same answer: hands down, well maintained quality properties in B neighborhoods.We also heard a presentation from Logan Rankin, one of the fastest growing investors in our area (from 0 to 3500 units in ten years) and he has a laser focus on excellent tenant experiences, upgrading properties inside and outside with an amzing pace (a team of 50 contractors with several trucks full of materials at the property on day 1 after closing, the first full unit rehab completed 48 hours later as a model unit to show etc..).

Just do it at your own pace and as mentioned above no need to hide behind excuses.

But we now would like to pick up the pace finishing a project and acquiring a couple apartment buildings instead of the multi family units.

BP is nice but it is just free advice which you need to take with a grain of salt those on the pod cast are just regular folks that all have a seperate agenda to sell something , maybe not all but most, and they are not  Vetted in any way..

Part of this is that expenses are going up while pay is not keeping pace.

Go at your own pace, and buy that first property.

Just seems my current model of renting is producing cash but a very slow pace.  

This is not false, and I have no other reason or agenda to make this statement and I have documentation to prove it.