Increasing your construction budget by a small amount can have an enormous impact on your overall construction budget, productivity and site safety/insurance premiums.

So he basically got a house for free, plus 24k profit to keep for himself.

We all know what basically caused the GFC it was rampant abuse of lending ..

They operate it basically, but the rents come from the guests.  

I'm not requesting a frank loyd wright design, basically, I'm looking for a modern style that we see all over the internet. 

It will familiarize you with the basic terminology and benefits.

For the basics I'm looking at a half acre of land for 150k Duplex Manu 3/2 1900 sqft per side 230KConstruction is roughly 150kThe rent minimum i would expect is 2500 per side and could probably stretch it a little because of the amount of land they would have access to.

@Josh GregoryEdgewater has some good blocks and there is certainly a lot of activity as it is basically wedged between Ohio City and Lakewood.

If latter, it would end up more expensive because if B&O taxes as well.I am wondering if anyone else here has gone thru this journey and can help with some of these basic bootstrapping questions. 

And I was able to scale up and get 12 houses basically for free by deploying equity from my rentals to buy more.