And unless you have very deep pockets, you can't afford to be that much off....So as has been said....hire a very experienced General Contractor and have them give you a budget number based on your SOW, (plus they will find other things that need to be done that you will not have seen).On your succeeding projects, you do a budget yourseld first, then hire the GC and compare numbers.Then, eventually you will be comfortable going all solo...but it takes time.

Our pockets are not deep but we have full ownership of the land. 

But they are fairly deep scratches.

Dig deep for online reviews, Better Business Bureau and their State Real Estate Board, etc.- Do be open-minded though as we have many of the above from tenants who claim we illegally evicted them (so, somehow we got a signed Write illegally?)

The other option would be diving deep with a bookkeeper to have them help run more updated books than just monthly.

Deep cleaning, new paint, lots of cosmetic repairs.

Deep cleaning, new paint, lots of cosmetic repairs.

I've hit it where I've given myself an almost 8 week interest free loan before and had no utilization reported, which is awesome when you're knee deep in several rehabs. 

Nothing wrong with investing in equities.I'm plenty deep in that.

@Lolo Druff Real Estate Investing is not like Trading Stocks or Crytocurrency.Real Estate Investing requires some deep thought and research from you as an Investor.Having 400k to deploy to multiple duplexes is a great start but you have some questions to ask and answer yourself.