No need to buy packages or programs if you establish a strong power team.Next, figure out your foot print and area to mine real estate inventory.

One guy works 2 weeks on - 2 weeks off in the Alaskan oil fiends—and for all I know he is still busy and working.

Some don’t think these properties will appreciate much; I think they’re wrong.I’m in a similar place it sounds as you, with a few Section 8 rentals owned in cash for less than 40k all in (mine rent for around $700-$800).

Roosevelt and Vernal have had quite a downturn over the last three years from the bottom dropping out of the oil market.

VT just passed that oil tank law so I'm currently paying $2,000 per tank per property to replace my older ones. 

In my conception of putting up a pole-barn roof over an house-trailer, the poles (pillars) would be oil-drill steels, of 26 feet long, which would be put in the ground, 10 feet down, so that winds can't pull such a roof up, by pulling the pillars out of the ground.

Mineral rights?  

I may also spread some of that out to oil and gas.

Royalty acres in the Marcellus Shale and Permian Basin (9% CoC)Being able to buy minerals with a DST is relatively new and the returns are great.

Like-Kind Real Property  The following list of real property asset classes represents interests in real property that usually qualify as like-kind property for 1031 Like-Kind Exchange purposes: Single Family Residential Property Multi-Family Property (Apartments) Commercial Office Properties Retail Shopping Properties Industrial Warehouse Properties Triple Net Lease (Net Lease or NNN) Investment PropertiesAgricultural (Farm) Properties Vacant Undeveloped Land Oil & Gas InterestsMineral RightsWater RightsAir Rights Easements in perpetuityLeases with a remaining life, including options, of 30 years or more Tenant-In-Common "TIC" Investment Property InterestsDelaware Statutory Trusts "DSTs" Investment Property Interests Vacation rental properties (income producing)