Increase rents to market rent2.

You can potentially increase your income by multiples and temporary workers are a solid niche for this. 

I am currently looking into getting my real estate license in North Carolina and hopefully this will increase my knowledge of real estate and which direction i need to proceed. 

The property can be turned into a four bedroom 2 bath (through space in the basement) which would increase the rent potential substantially. 

Rents hadn't been increased in years.

Its safe to say that the social stigma that marijuana is harmful is going away.Still, it still has the perception of attracting a bad bunch of people and still operates as a cash business.

You can then figure out if that will work with what you can afford in the area and cross reference that to make sure your deals would still be attractive given the BAH rate for the area. 

We increase the per diem aggressively starting the day after the seller is supposed to be gone.These things can turn ugly.I recently helped someone to buy an SFR in Plymouth. 

https://www.har.com/content/newsroom/Houston Real Estate Highlights in October Single-family home sales increased 4.7 percent year-over-year, with 6,716 units sold;Days on Market (DOM) for single-family homes was 57 versus 61 a year earlier;Total property sales rose 6.0 percent, with 8,127 units sold;Total dollar volume jumped 9.3 percent to $2.3 billion;The single-family home median price climbed 3.6 percent to $234,653, an October high;The single-family home average price also achieved an October record, rising 3.5 percent to $294,500;Single-family homes months of inventory reached a 3.9-months supply, up fractionally from 3.7 months last October, but below the national supply of 4.4 months reported by NAR;Townhome/condominium sales dropped 2.9 percent, with the average price up 4.9 percent to $206,838 and the median price down 2.2 percent at $152,900;Leases of single-family homes rose 7.3 percent with the average rent down 1.1 percent to $1,754;Volume of townhome/condominium leases fell 6.8 percent with the average rent up 1.2 percent to $1,550.

As your assets increase you may want to get a personal umbrella policy (PUP) to cover any additional liability.