As well, It would not be legal for your agent to pay you a commission.They will be wearing two hats in your proposed transaction; one as a passive investor sharing equally in the expenses and profits, and the second, as your real estate agent. 

In my opinion too strong ambition is equal to too much stress, I still need to start sleep early at 8:30pm, I tell my boss if I were in your position, I can't sleep, and his health is very deteriorating, it's not worthed I guess depends on one ambition.b) How Real estate can affect health, in other thread I told one time that I have to fight squatter, this is the biggest stress in my life, because of this I would not invest in certain area.c) However, once I invested in Hawaii, my stress level went to zero LOL.

My CPA advised me to split the generic costs such as property tax and water bills equally between both units, which seems reasonable.

More debt equals more amortization of the loan. 

Currently, we are at 12.75% interest with 3 - 5 points on the loan origination end; we haven’t been able to locate any existing mortgage notes we can buy of similar quality with ROI even equal to that.  

Higher risk equals higher stress but higher rewards, faster.

With a strong interest in the field, I’m here to dive deep into real estate investment, aiming to grow and learn from this community’s vast experiences.Currently residing in the Bay Area, I’m fascinated by the dynamism of our local market but am equally interested in exploring investment opportunities beyond, including other cities and states.

One pull is equal to 5 in a 45 day period. 

If I lose my money in real estate, I want it to be my fault, not just sitting by watching some equal idiot make bad or fraudulent decisions.

If you start putting another 10-20% into your property your total returns start getting lower.What i found is the gains of higher equity paydown were positive up to about 5% of purchase price, we’re about equal between 5 and 10 percent and lowered return on equity after 10%.