This does not mean investing in RE is a bad option or that we should only invest in the stock market.

Even tho i am setting aside cash for investing, i am looking to use that for reserves, and stock piling it in for when the market turns back down.

It is turning from a investment to a liability based on the accumulation of dead equity.

There always more dead but they keep hatching.

This is similar to selling shares of a stock or fund in a more conventional brokerage IRA.  

I addition you should be refinancing to pull out the dead  equity otherwise all you will be doing is buying artificial cash flow with your own money.

Warren Buffett recently told his shareholders that they should expect stock in his company to lose 50% of it's value sometime in the near future.

Dead equity in a income property is little more than very expensive hoarding of cash.If mortgage rates are at 5% and a investors cash has a opportunity value of 10% every dollar sitting dead in a property is losing 5% annually. 

I am based in south Florida, I am an  IT guy by  profession and have been in this industry for the past 12 years, up until 2017 the only connection I had with Real Estate is my primary home.From listening to podcasts and reading few books I've realized that Real Estate is the investing vehicle  I want to go forward with, I am not a fan of stocks but funneled money to my 401k all these years just like most other folks do. .

This area has a lot of housing stock that is just garbage.