Also a year - year and a half of cash reserves to cover mortgages or throw at a new deal during opportune time won't keep you awake at night.  

The rest, I would throw into mortgage REIT's as they are still beaten down.  

Let's be real, if everyone else's happy meals are $2.875, and you're at $2.75, and the food is ready reasonably fast and of high quality, your customers will still be plenty happy, with the price and the service... you absolutely don't need to (& shouldn't) drop to $2.50 and throw service/taste/quality out the window to do well (in fact, you will do worse). 

I love it when some tenant thinks they are going to sneak their pet in without paying extra and I throw the law at them.

One outlier property can throw that average off.

I'll just throw a couple out here to start:https://www.biggerpockets.com/...https://www.biggerpockets.com/...Depending on where you live, there may be local resources to look at to find your house hack, such as the local real estate investing associations or local realtors.

I wanted to throw my name is this thread to introduce myself.

I agree with @Lamont Chen personally, I prefer to have as little money in the deal as possible assuming the numbers work and I have enough reserves to handle anything the future may throw at me.

How quickly will you throw in towel? 

You're throwing good money after bad.