Clearly the downside is each portfolio will not grow / compound as quickly due to lack of total focus.On the other hand / upside, if one does well  it can feed the other and if both do well that’s even better.My motivation for asking is because I am already 100% invested in stock market as I am just learning about REI.

My husband is very risk averse and I think we'll probably be more "slow and steady" than high risk quick climbers.

I’ve learned very quickly that people will step all over you if you don’t take a stand.

I hope you come to understand that quickly and well.

If you do buy the worst property in the best neighborhood, you don't want it to remain the worst property in the neighborhood - there's a point at which you want to do a better job of attracting customers than your competitors, and that's going to be difficult to do if your place is a dump relative to the rest of the neighborhood. 

Her father has died and is looking to move the property as quick and fast as possible.

These drafts do not need to be "official" just quick sketches. 

The criminal history would come back clean but a quick Google search would repeatedly turn up local convictions.

I got the funds quick and closed on the property Friday.

There are thousands of posts on BP, almost every day, and keeping advertisements, deal-making and fights clear from the forums is not an easy task; if threads weren't moderated the forums would quickly become virtually unusable and unattractive to the majority of people here that are just trying to learn more about real estate investing.