I offer a substandard product that’s cheaper than anybody else to people who make poor choices .

Look for DSL, it is cheaper than cable internet.

Operating Expenses (other than management fees): Estimated operating expenses can deviate significantly from one bidder to the next.Cap Ex Costs: Estimated improvement costs can deviate significantly from one bidder to the next.Rent Growth: Estimated rent growth can deviate significantly from one bidder to the next.Cost of Debt: If debt can be assumed and is cheaper than the current market, most bidders will share same input.

Tuscon area gives you same home as Phoenix and surrounding cities but for much cheaper.

Maybe offer it at a cheaper rate to a developer with lots of years under his belt and take you on as a limited working partner.

I am thinking the cash from the cash out refi is not taxable sense I have a new loan and I only owe taxes from the sale of $220k house minus - $170k new loan, 

Getting it in or out almost always results in a taxable event, and when an owner passes away, the beneficiaries would receive a step up in *stock value*, not a step up in the assets within the corporation.

These are the best skips out there and I'll use them when my cheaper skips fail from Mojo.

Usually we have a few thousand dollars each year to invest after we max out these accounts (and it usually just goes into a taxable brokerage account where we use it to buy Berkshire Hathaway or Markel or some other stock that does not pay a dividend).That extra money was actually how we ended up buying this duplex - thought it might be a good way to diversify our investments.I was wondering if I could use net income from our duplex (assuming we have net income, and by net income I mean what we report to the IRS) to fund a solo 401k or some other kind of tax-advantaged plan?

As interest (taxable as regular income), capital gains (usually taxed at 15%), and basically return of principle (pry called something else but payment against her cost basis.) that’s tax free.