This strategy spares the landlord from the whole registering with the rent board and a tenant's 45 day right of rescission process. 

It's probably in your advantage to pay off anything with an interest rate of 6.5%+ as soon as you have spare cash in the bank, unless you know you have a near-term deal that will yield 7%+.- Do you have enough reserves for renovating / repairing the rented side of the duplex if it goes vacant?

I wasn't getting the income that I needed and I have two spare bedrooms in my house that I never use.

Allentown will be more compact, it will be more so middle class type properties mixed with lower end properties. 700 credit score is above average, you should be in good shape.

You won't learn that stuff in a day, you can in your spare time in a few (3/4) months, so if you're lacking in the numbers game, start reading.My guess is that the book mentioned would be well worth the money (I don't know how much it is, but such are usually are fairly priced), that's because it appears the authors are well qualified as CPAs with personal real estate experience.

The alternate option I came up with was to remain in my primary residence and rent out the spare rooms to get more cash flow coming my way.

So I'm in a situation where I recently just talk to a property owner i'm in Columbus Ohio and the property is about three beds one bath has potential for spare room downstairs but the real question is she told me she owes 12,000 in property taxes she inherited property from her dad he paid cash on the property, he recently just passed away and she called me about selling and she let me know that she owes taxes she's looking to get 40 K out the property I was doing some of my research and I was noticing the properties are selling for about 50-80k then I went to the Franklin County clerks of courts and it says that she has a pending case open with a pre-foreclosure so I'm wondering will I still be able to wholesale the property and if anybody knows some general prices of remodeling a kitchen for a house in that price range, also remodeling bathrooms change indoors and refinishing floors house is about 925sqft because I'm still trying to figure out the estimated repair cost to make an offer ?

If you have a spare $297 and a website will make you feel more legit you can go to https://www.yellowletters.com/product/real-estate-website I got one and it's way less than a webdesigner will charge you.

What could I be doing in my spare time to start building equity?

And ya made it with literally 2 minutes to spare but fryer was already down, damn it, but got the reset of the food!!