Build the team around the skills you have to ensure their skills set is complementary and start working towards your goal.If I can help you further feel free to reach out.Best!

It's awesome to run across someone who has worked with inherited IRA's, it seems to be a very rare (and valuable) skill to have!

Recently, I have realized my strengths are more on the analytical side and I would like to transition to a role that will allow me to do work utilizing my strengths, and learn skills that will help me with multifamily investing.

The more I read on this site the more I realize that I have a lot of useful skills in this industry. 

It seems like there's an opportunity for me to lend my skills in underwriting and analyzing deals to those without an extensive background in commercial real estate.

It is very important for me to bring some knowledge or skills to the table, otherwise I don't want to waste people's time.

Hard work to create income (hard work seems to be a lost art these days) , dedication to live within your means, grow your sources of income, invest what you save into cash producing assets, grow those assets... repeat.

@John Smithe - This is going to come down to the following:1) Your personal investment philosophy: your goals, your interests, your time horizon, your risk tolerance, and your interpretation of world events 2) Your unfair advantage: your skills, your expertise, your network, your resourcesBiggerPockets tends to bring together like minds and similar experience, so this sampling bias might result in concluding that a large multifamily in the Midwest, for example, is the best use of your funds.Ask the broad universe of investors the same question, however, and your answers will be quite different.Real estate might well be your best investment, but so might be starting a business, or picking stocks, or buying precious metals.  

She is 73, has no money, I made her retire (not educated in modern world, skills aren't useful, works more detrimental than what its worth), and I essentially turned this house over to her to live her life in.

It will probably be a bit grueling but I think it will pay off the most, definitely in terms of experience (negotiating with sellers is a skill you’ll use for the rest of your life) and possibly in a deal as well.