It’s completely normal to feel a bit of analysis paralysis, especially when you’re in a position to make a move.The choice between a short-term rental (like Airbnb), long-term rentals, or a duplex comes down to your personal preferences and lifestyle.

I am fortunate that I do not owe on my duplex but we’ve handled selected two tenants that fit with our lifestyle and therefore have the other side rented at under market value.

If so, you might be able to make a unit which functionally does not make sense into a normal 2 or 3 bedroom unit.

So, Don is right, this is not normally okayed (no financial skin in the game). 

If you do the work yourself, you should only charge for materials.As Kevin points out, you have to determine what is "normal" and what is excessive and chargeable.

Yup, confirming that desirable assets in desirable areas are indeed being financed in the 5s with normal bank and credit union loans for commercial real estate.

The rate is typically higher than a normal P&I loan.

JLH capital made their normal fees. 

.- It seems that their prices are substantially higher than what would normally be charged for the same services.

Ask them, if I were to call you at such and such time what is your normal availability?