Greetings, My name is Matt and I'm currently living in Manhattan Beach, CA.

Hi I currently rent a place , can i buy a multy family in Brooklyn or Queens and live in one unit and rent out the second BUT still keep my rental unit in Manhattan?

I'd love to grab a coffee or a beer with you if you're in Manhattan the week of the 14th.

NYC has a very high price point, but if 5 crowdfund portals were to open and focus on even one neighborhood in Manhattan, that could represent 5M capital raised entirely by small contribution, of which that neighborhood would probably swallow up and ask for more.My point being, even the people setting up these portals can benefit and carve out a niche as 'facilitating brokers' as there won't be one dominating portal running the game like facebook or, shall I say ...biggerpockets?!

My goal is to have a 5 year holding period for these properties and then analyze whether it makes sense to sell or to continue to hold on.I live in central NJ but find myself in New York City, mainly Manhattan and Brooklyn, a few days a week as well as northern NJ.

I have worked on the full spectrum too from high-end apartments in Manhattan to very plain two-family houses near the local college, Rutgers University.

There are a bunch of us from the area that have met up in Manhattan.

Sort of sucks because these countries don't let US citizens invest in their countries.. so US gets middle-class priced out of Manhattan while Russians and Chinese horse trade amongst themselves.

I moved back home to New York City about a year and a half ago for another opportunity and in May began working as a broker in Manhattan to get my feet wet with this real estate thing.

Maybe it is in Manhattan or San Francisco.