Lenders  not easily available. 

In terms of adding 400 square feet and how that might affect occupancy, you should be able to get that done easily in four months. 

About the only thing I would do today is buy a nice home for cash in my back yard under market value that I could easily repurpose into a duplex. 

We have tons of people in the community that host great local events and still encourage users to check those out here https://www.biggerpockets.com/forums/521Thanks again for the feedback and hope that some upcoming tests help you to find what you are looking for easily. 

You can easily save up $50,000 or more in that time.4.

Because of its proximity to the Common and downtown, it could easily get $200 a night in the off season, and $1,200 during September and October.Very long winded, but all that is to say, we’ve done a lot of planning and research, and now we’re exploring how to actually set this in motion.

Willing to extend benefit of the doubt to someone packing up shakers (not paying attention), and yes, all this is small beans and easily replaced.

He could easily buy this as an INV property, throw a tenant in there for 1 year and then move when ready. 

I have easily spent over that for both properties.

and to be clear - no, there is no obvious / effortless / low risk way to put funds into something RE-related with no experience and easily beat savings or CD returns right now.lots of folks thought there was and got burned.getting in right now requires patience and money.