Properly accounting for these expenses ensures an accurate assessment of the deal's profitability.Cash Flow: Have you calculated the potential cash flow from the duplex?

The transaction time is so compressed that it strongly favors those who can quickly and accurately analyze a property and the work needed, as well as having a team in place.

Considering they are the same price and both have there pros/cons, as far as running comps goes, which is more accurate?

If the software is not simplifying your life or making you more accurate, you shouldn't use it.Software has extremely helpful features like online payments, marketing syndication (click a button,your property is advertised on multiple sites), electronic document review/signing, maintenance tracking, and owner reports.

I feel like these large luxury buildings are a gamble in many ways.

I don't go too much by cap rates since I've heard that it's less accurate for SFHs. 

I'm curious if this information is accurate or just hearsay.

In fairness exterior leaks can be tricky to accurately diagnose no matter who is managing the process.

@Carlos Lopes- thanks  - your points about accelarting the loan  payoff are  accurate ....the main downside to this is that whatever funds you are using  towards the  extra  paydown - wont be able to  work for you in some other  way .... if the  property is treading water  with the min payment being made - let it ride  and the loan will pay down on its own ....and then use your  extra  funds for  other  purposes 

Don't know about how accurate AirDNA is.