The nature of kitchen and laundry appliances is such that they are, essentially, plug and play (rotable). 

Stay put and grow your savings through non real estate investments3.

I would continue to buy more duplexes and continue growing, and learning and then maybe you can sell all and jump into something larger.

@Akeem Wheatley The subject has been beat to death on BP.https://www.biggerpockets.com/forums/519/topics/24...It boils down to this...If you can put your money into an asset growing at 6-8% and you can get an immediate line of credit against that asset at 4.5% (prime), then anything you can do with that borrowed money that earns more than 4.5% will be adding value on top of the original asset.

But yes, they'd typically keep that commission unless they have an assistant or something of that nature that they divide up their splits with.

Mindful of the fact that I'd like a way to generate income to reinvest and grow and I don't know anything about buying and selling REO, notes, tax-liens, and all the other seemingly 'quick-turn profit niches out there , is Multi-Family smart to start with?

Unlike some other folks, due to the nature of your job/profession, you might not want to be an active real estate investors (could be wrong here).

There is a huge demand for lower-priced housing with the growing university and manufacturing boom happening out off of USA Parkway (for those familiar with the area).

Homestead is growing and I believe this will be sold at above listing price based on my research.

We want to go in together and become a entity under a company name that we can grow with, not individual buyers.