It seems most off market deals I've found have been from larger acquisition groups.  

.) - in 2025 your energy is better spent on a business than a duplex that cashflows $200 or less.

If so, you open yourself up to a larger pool of candidates.

If you buy junkers and fix them up, you can make much larger returns. 

In the long run, I want to have properties that are producing strong cash flow (eventually would love to own small apartment buildings and syndicate larger deals), but it seems that focusing on cash flow and reinvesting those cash flows will be a slower process than focusing on properties prime for appreciation or with opportunities for forced appreciation.

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I turned the two smaller bathrooms in one of the apartments into larger one.

My strategy incorporates asset protection measures like LLCs, specific trusts as well as professional property management to spread risk and ensure quality operations.As well as using tax codes to my benfiitSection 179, IRC Section 162, Cost Segregation and Bonus Depreciation and later 1031 them out for larger projects. 

My accountant wants me to start doing this in the event of an audit being I’m starting larger projects and will be implementing cost segregation Thanks

We have only had to collect the overage one time and honestly, it is due to having a larger family in the home than we have had in the past.