And if you really wanted to you could take the cash flow on your properties and apply it to your lowest loan amount for a few months to power that down and pay it off to buy your next home.  

Your are much farther into negative cash flow than you think.

SO from what I understand, you went from +900/mo cash flow to -650/mo cash flow?

If not, you're going to have negative cash flow. 

The cash flow is decent but the building is older and needs work.

Your Financial Goals are as simple as generating two very basic sets of number...dollars really:1)  Make enough Profit (lump sum returns) to Pay Off your personal debt...ALL of it.2)  Get enough CashFlow to "cover" your monthly bills...ALL of them...and to replace your current method of doing so.The overall Plan, is comprised of a series of Measureable Milestones made up of groups  of the individual Financial Goals (Debt Payoff, Cash Flow)...all lined up in a row.  

Those will be tough to cash flow though.Or you can go to HCAD.org and do a search for smaller apts, I think there's a 4-20 unit category. 

@owend my goals are to keep acquiring rentals so that we can retire and have a family on the rental cash flow.

It will release me of ownership and rental cssh flow.3.

Currently cash-flowing $1,645 a month with a 20% down payment.