If I was to bet, I would assume 20 years in the future that tax laws would be less beneficial to investors.

You want to study the ponies, then you might want to create a business around horseracing - I don't know, t-shirts with a picture of a famous stud playing poker or some #hit - rather than betting on one horse to win.

Realistically, your best bet is to find buyers for the 4 properties and charge them  commissions on the deals.

In my experience it depends on zip code, type of property (SFR, duplex, fourplex, more-plex, etc), price of property and amount of down payment - beyond just what you listed.Your best bet is to go to bankrate.com and check there by entering your info.

Your best bet is to find a mentor who expects nothing in return.

You've been buying a long time I bet. 

@Aviv BerkovitchI don't know the Indy market but I'd bet you'd find someone competent for $10-15/hr if you can get them going.Depending on the number of cuts/corners, etc I'd bet you'd be at 1.5 -3.5 days labor to complete a job like this.So, do the math.Of course if you go the 'professional' route IE Homeadvisor be prepared to pay 3-8x that easy.On the paint, I'd probably start my negotiating for that at maybe $650 to $900 depending on number of cuts around trim, etc.Doesn't mean you'd get someone at that but I wouldn't pay more than another 1.2x what I said above.

Bet we’ll be seeing a lot of LLC unwinding happening real soon in the golden state!

I actually had a seller financing deal recently fall through and was not charged, but I bet if that was my first creative deal with them they would have charged me for the hours burned (and it also fell through rather early in the process so was not a huge time-suck). 

I wouldn't bet the farm on winning this one in court.