My end game is to show you a path to financial independence, whether that be at 45 yrs old or 70 yr old.  

My best contractors over thirty years of flipping were always people I met through networking or other investors or trial and error, never online.

They used that period of unemployment to skip paying student loans and then try to get some kind of program/hardship deferral or something aka "gaming the system".

Definitely online via property management software!

Spending too much time on analyzing one deal will put you out of the game on too many other ones...

Hey @Marc Shin, so yes on the games.

If appreciation is not there, however, it seems like a potentially long waiting game to see if your $60k investment today returns anything meaningful in the long run. 

when I used a capital gains calculator online, if I put zero money down and put the 2 loans, the cap gains is a lot lower than if I just recorded 1 loan and entered the money from the downpayment loan under cash.

Focus on what the rents will look like post-renovation with 4 units instead of 2, and have a clear game plan for refinancing to pull your capital back out. 

The amount of ideologically inspired nonsense online is mind-boggling.