My plan when I became a realtor was to buy two doors per year for 10 years.

@Derek Tuohy I would suggest start working on getting a Bookkeeper on your team and use a software, if you plan to grow it will be easier and cheaper to get into a software now rather than later and have to learn with 20 units rather than learn with the 3 you have.I agree with @Jake Baker on his bare minimum suggestions.

Note: I bought my primary home in Georgia because the home next to my mom’s that I grew up in went for sale, so I plan to hold onto it longterm and put it in a trust with my mom’s house.

or...are you planning on "helping them" (adding/transferring title into your name)?

Along with this, I plan to house hack my first year and accumulate rental properties as I continue to make money.

Plans to were announced last month to invest $2B into the cities airport in anticipation of the population/business

Do you plan on doing these improvements before anyone moves in?

Or do you plan on wholesaling and 4k is the fee?

Our long-term plan involves eventually vacating our current residence to rent out both units.

No matter how well you plan to build up your reserves it just takes a while to build them up in the real world.