You are trading equity build-up for cash flow.  

What I do is offfer my angry tennants the opportunity to get into real estate investing, offer them work in maintaining properties, collecting rents, and offer guidance on them being able to buy their first place of their own.Don't you think they would love to have at minimum two jobs to be able to save up the money , work their ends off to build up their credit, hunt down deals, and negotiate a purchase, invest their money knowing there is no guarantee of ever getting your money out of it or of profiting, have to spend thousands of dollars or 10's of thousands of dollars, even hundreds of thousands of dollars in order to be a ble to provide others with housing?

Most buyers are also looking at houses on weekends and evenings, so you may be able to make that work too as you build up your referral network. 

@Nick Graziano I have had luck with both Capital one spark card and the chase ink card.They might deny you st first, just call and let them know you are a solid business.Cheers to your success!

Even if you set all the cash-flow aside, it would take a year just to build up a $2,000 reserve which isn't enough to replace the carpet in one unit and that doesn't cover cleaning, other repairs, vacancy, etc.I don't know enough to make the decision for you but the margins seem really thin based on what you've shared.

Although I don't plan on investing more in KS, you should find good cash flow and some appreciation as well if you are in the right area.

I am working now to build up all three of the items listed above.

It helps to build up your network and get educated faster, and you may end finding future partners for potential deals. 

I understand this strategy isn't for everyone, so if that isn't an option the live-in flip method is also a good way to build up some more cash for investments.

There's a lot of opportunity to get involved with large multi family units,  but if you can find enough investors you could do it with less of your own money.If you're looking at retiring in 15 or 20 years, you could start with some smaller duplex style units and build up from there, or just hold a few and pay them off.