If you sell right away, you can then keep half the profits (or whichever percentage you like) as a reserve and purchase your second with the remaining funds.

Considering the option of tear down and build a new house, I was wandering if there's an average percentage difference in insuring a new home vs an older house?  

My honest opinion, is if you are looking at percentage returns, it is more common to get higher returns from commercial than residential, but you are also slightly more susceptible to market shifts.  

If they are able to collect, you will receive a percentage of that.

Since your parents benefited from the sale, a possible solution is to split the capital gains tax burden proportionally.You could propose a split based on the percentage of down payment vs remaining mortgage paid down over the years.

, or do you just make a percentage adjustment to your predictions?

Whether it is flat fee or percentage, the seller is going in know what they will be paying to sell the asset and factoring that into their asking price. 

I'm very conservative and want conservative leverage percentages, long-term fixed rate loans, high skin in the game and sponsor that has experienced at least one full real estate cycle and lost little to no investor money.

Hi,I'm looking for a free PM platform that allows distribution of my rent collections by certain percentages, to be distributed to multiple bank accounts.

The biggest mistake I see is to worry too much about the cost of things like lawn mowing and water bill and the exact percentage for vacancies, but not being enough aware of the general condition of the property - resulting in 20k, 50k or more in capex a few years down the road.My advice: look for a quality property that has all the big-ticket items already done.