If there is significant time you could be making money that you're not, all the time you spent waiting for a duplex made your great duplex that much less valuable.

We spent the better part of the day deep cleaning.

Typically this would be a great investment, but I'm only 25 and trying to work towards financial freedom, so would my limited cash be spent better towards my next rental? 

I spent money traveling to see the home in another state. 

I'll still buy and sell but we spent 2018 focusing our marketing into areas that can take a correction hit and still be Retail areas. 

I’d say your energy is better spent finding more deals.

So for those that I spent a little time chatting with and those that I met for the first time thanks for sharing.

We have some mild experience in landlord/tenant from our previous home ownership, my experience in lending is more on the regulatory side, but I'm not unfamiliar with lending, closing, foreclosure, and short sale processes because of the time I've spent in financial institutions.

We spent a year slowly fixing it up on nights and weekends.

This is not a revelation to anyone.You're also correct when you say there is only so much agent advertising dollars being spent.