My family was an investor in a Corporate Housing designated complex and it turned out to be very profitable.

At first, you won't be able to offset your W2 income with losses, but it is nice when you sell a property at a profit and all the capital gains are wiped out by losses from other properties.A huge amount of tax savings get unlocked if one of you leaves your W2 job to focus on real estate and you get Real Estate Professional Status (REPS). 

, not so much for the profit we are making, for all of the expenses involve that surpass our profit.

This is what I think I know:- The borrower can choose to pay off the note at any time (by selling the property or just paying off the loan with other funds), so it is important that the legal balance covers my investment and some profit- The borrower could file bankruptcy (can someone confirm that this will only cause delay, but not jeopardize ultimately collecting the legal balance of the note)- Most of these DOTs will have a rent assignment clause, so I could try to enforce that and collect rents from tenants (essentially manage the property) while I am holding the note and trying to foreclose.

Quote from @Alex Scattareggia: Is the problem that the property wont be profitable with the 20% management fee taken out?

Do that, make some profit and then buy the 9 unit. 

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Will it make a profit?

And we add the cost of the W/D into the rent, so any units that make it a little more than 1.5 years are profit.

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