“Rent prices are increasing right alongside home prices, so you may not be saving much by waiting to buy if you end up spending a lot of time paying someone else's mortgage at inflated costs.” says Maggie Gomez, a certified financial planner and founder of Money with Maggie.2.

It does provide more confidence to potential investors, if the sponsor is investing along side them.  

You will be working alongside high functioning, more experienced investors and that will take you further, faster. 

They basically said they couldn't find any comparables so they had to go with what was out there and they valued my property on a per unit basis alongside some 4-8 plexes with double the bedrooms that rent for 70% of what mine do (aka akin to the status of the condition of mine prior to renovations). 

Homeowners didn’t want to pay, so they sold before came due but alongside other sellers and hurt values. 

Looking forward to working/learning alongside you all. 

I purchased my first property about 20 years ago along side my then girl friend who has since become my wife.

Also you will save money by "depreciating" half of the duplex, that's indirect money, but it saves you in taxes paid every year.Also, if you have the cash, try to leverage it and either flip smart alongside few buddies that know the game, though note flipping activity has slowed down across nation as inventory amount decreased and price increased.

Alongside this he has discussed eliminating the mortgage interest deduction for your personal residence. 

or whatever - the two sides of the coin should be merged , obviously "how many units" you want in xyz years is part of the business plan but when your weighing the costs to your personal life having the "reason" tied up right along side it is going to be golden for getting you through , so as an example - say you're coming up on the deadline in 6 months and you're 20% short - well if the focus was just on # of units you could just make some excuses and continue on as you were but if you also had, in writing the commitment to yourself that you needed those units to fund your kids college or something it puts that extra fire under you to take a closer look at whatever budget you've made and how much youre sticking to it - or hustle some overtime and start networking one more night a week or whatever.Sorry if that was a little ranty :)