As a new investor, a duplex gives me some pause because I'm afraid there might be long periods of vacancy where I'll have to come out of pocket to cover expenses.

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What are the my options to limit bringing that money out of pocket for the down payment but also minimize the amount of equity given away on the project? 

@Scott TrenchOnly thing I can think of is He just recorded a video on YouTube that discussed a former employee of bigger pockets and had some criticisms.

Hello, I was looking for information on how to get into Real Estate and landed on bigger pockets podcast.

Put you money to work for you, not in someone else’s pocket.

I am new to Bigger Pockets and to real estate and would love to get some good information for starters or to just discuss.

.($200,000 - $25,000 = $175,000)Guess, what – now the buyer who was going to pay you $1M for your house can only pay you $875k, since they had to pay out of pocket for their buyer’s agent.

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