That’s great advice Taz, I’m currently working on saving enough money to get started, house hacking is hard for me at the moment because I just bought a house 2 years ago, I would have to sell my house(which is in a great neighborhood great location) and use that money to fund the duplex which isn’t totally out of the question, I would like to keep the house if possible but also would like to get real estate investing more.

I guess it’s like free advertising.  

If there aren't any massive physical problems with the property, it appears you can grow income and equity.You might be able to buy this with little cash out of pocket if the seller owns it free and clear and was willing to finance nearly all of it.  

Quote from @Diandre Pierce: I have 7 rentals with a total available equity of roughly 800K.

They will issue an IRS Form 1099 in January, reporting your total taxable income to you and the IRS.

For a 90-unit project, this could result in a tax credit of $180,000, and for a 112-unit project, the tax credit could total $224,000.

Be sure to check out the free tools BP provides to help analyze deals you may have and also market insights.

Here is a great resource. https://www.areavibes.com/They give you a total livability score and you can type any address in 

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So, if you put in 20K, you could set the bid up to the amount of the 100K total debt(80K existing + 20K additional) to ensure that the property reverts to you as the lender.