So I'm with you in going after low crime areas. 

I kept hearing about house hacking and how it was the best way to get started so that's what I did.

A lot of BP Pro Members are landlords so they need a software to manage those properties, so the RentRedi Perk saves members around $360 in software costs. 

but its only been in the past two or so years that posting and engaging here has really been done with intent and constancy. 

I've closed 20+ coliving deals as an agent over the past year or so and have offered/UC on dozens more.If you're going to buy a 'turnkey' operation (following info is true for a coliving BRRRR) - the buyer's out there are underwriting the properties to about a 9-10 cap on what the properties can generate conservatively OR are generating.

So if your parents paid $40,000 for the property and today it's worth $500,000....your basis "value" in the property will be their 40,000. 

(I have experience raising money as a professional musician so this came somewhat naturally to me). 

Never built in Houston before so take my feedback with a grain of salt but I'd put money on it being impossible to build a duplex from scratch for $125 a foot (including everything from drawings, engineering, permit fees, general conditions, labor, material, landscaping).Out here in AZ the builder cost is going to be $200 a foot at best, but add 20% on top of that for the client cost.

I use RentVine, and so far, we really like it. 

I hate to admit it but a lot of people (loan officers) are lazy and would rather just tell you that you need 2 years needed so they don't have to put in the legwork to see, but it is possible.