I agree with @Scott Harper, I used to live in Florida and was a member of the CFRI group - you can meet some good folks there, but they do heavily promote gurus and classes - so just skip all that and listen, learn and utilize Bigger Pockets - with none of the Hype!

It is only limited for the house you live in.

We lived in this home for 5 yr before turning it into a rental

If you have a nice team, maybe your management company won't destroy your cash flow with a million needless expenses that you have no way to verify to see whether they are actually necessary.Just a heads up from personal experience in living in the Akron "war zone," I would never invest out of state in Akron without local assistance.

No matter where you live, these rate of return is not sustainable. 

While I am tempted at times to sell certain properties, my goal from day one has been to build my net worth and live a great lifestyle along the way.

We are local in Bartlett and I live in Saint Charles so let me know if you ever want to chat. 

She still lives in the house and he hasn’t lived there since 2016. 

If I may suggest the easiest and safest approach would be to buy a duplex and live in one half while you are collecting rent on the other.

 - One interior unit will be 12,000 BTU for a large living room/kitchen space, and a smaller 9,000 BTU for the bedroom.the total system capacity has to be able to cool both inside units at the same time so 21,000 BTU or larger for the outside unit.The beauty of these is that they can be installed DIY (provided you get your 608 certification card), as long as the line sets don't need to be shortened or lengthened, as there is no brazing/welding involved, just connect the lines and purge air, etc.my dual zone costs comes in at around 2.6k to 2.8k for my 800sqft structure.