I did have an interesting conversation with their "director of education" who spends an hour to see if potential students have what it takes to qualify for their limited number of coaching slots...in less than a half hour he decided I wasnt a good fit for their program, and hung up on me :-) My non proprietary "secret" is; think about who the buyer is, figure out what they want and give it to them.

BP members make a donation to aheroshome.org and they get me for a half an hour to talk shop.. if its something I am not really up to speed on I let them know they can still donate but I may not be the best person for advice..

The advice of @Gita Faust is correct and I would not follow the advice Scott is getting from his CPA - they are probably just telling him what is easiest for his taxes.

Assuming your DTI is in good shape, the easiest way to put the least down out of pocket is to use a HELOC on your current property as your down payment and conventional loan for the rest of the purchase. 

Ask any landlord how tenants that have been charged “under market” rent for 5-10 years act when you explain it to them and raise the rent even half way to market.

From the folks I have talked to that have, they are their easiest tenants and guaranteed money. 

One other theory that comes to mind is that just because its listed for sale at half the price, doesn't mean that's what it's going to sell for. 

@Michelle Bueno you’re paying someone 10k to take half hour profits up to 500k?

I'm moving out of my house hack soon and planning to rent half the units out long term and rent the other half out mid term.

Some of our properties are right on the beach, some are less than half a mile away.