Both of these areas are too small and isolated from the Indianapolis Metropolitan area in my opinion.

Now it's not isolated to what people would do with $30k, but it may help with some ideas.

I love the isolation of having two separate units, but I also need to make smart business decisions.Anyone with thoughts/experience on this?

This MAY be an isolated move by the Federal Housing Administration, but if it is not (as I suspect), might the profit paradigms which rely on mortgage buyers be in jeopardy?

It sounds like the suggested approach is to convert LLP's to LP's...but that will lose the liability isolation protection (which was the whole point) as I understand it. 

SLC seems to be isolated from the fluctuations of the rest of the country. 

I have a plumber whom I've been working with and he continues to bail me out while I'm out of town but we agreed we need an electrician to help isolate the electricity flowing through the pipes. 

I am looking to invest in a multi family property (such as a quad), I have quite a bit of savings ready to go but my main issue is I live and work in a very isolated part of North Dakota which makes it very difficult for me to scope out potential neighbourhoods and out of state areas which might be suitable.

You can do a pressure test to isolate the issue

Isolate - "Aside from my commission how do you feel about everything else?"