Plus by going with you, they won't have the benefit of an agent's errors and omissions insurance, the support of their brokerage, and the experience an agent has in protecting their clients from everything that can go wrong in real estate transactions.

Whether it be a fix-and-flip loan or a 30-year fixed DSCR loan, nearly all of the clients that I work with will opt for closing in the name of an LLC.As you may know, closing in the name of an LLC prevents the loan from reporting on your personal credit as a tradeline (unless you default on the loan).

Congratulations on the duplex -My investor clients have acquired several multi-family investment properties locally in the market I operate in Northwest Indiana - Figure out your personal investment objective for the next 4 years and align yourself with the next property that make sense in this current market environment-

@Matt McCurdy We have lots of clients that utilize this strategy.

@John Reagan Johnson hope you don't mind a PMC answering, but most of our clients hire us because:1) They live out of state and don't have time & expertise to remote manage2) They don't have the time to manage3) They don't feel they have the necessary expertise and/or don't want to risk learning as they go and making an expensive mistake.Go read Kiosaki's Cash Flow Quadrant book.

I have several CFO clients that do similar heavy rehab projects in the Midwest (albeit with a lower purchase price), so you can definitely make the numbers work. 

@Jonathan Blanco, I'm and investor and a licensed mortgage broker so I've been on both sides of this conversation.I would look for a lender that (1) listens to you and understands your strategy and needs (hint: it's not always money), (2) has experience working with clients executing your strategy and brings more to the table than just cash - be it advice, relationships, deal-team partners, etc., (3) gives you viable options and explains the pros and cons of each option and (4) you enjoy interacting with - this should be a relationship, not a transaction.Once you find a few lenders like this (and you should have relationships with more than one), then you can start comparing rates and fees.

Personally too, I look for the best quality and always provide that to all my clients.

Investing abroad is not something that a majority of investors think of but a lot of my clients have been lately!

I have had clients that had a quote come back 5K a year more than we expected it to come back.