Buildiummove used appfolio and property wareBuildium is the easiest if the three to use hands down.also used steesa for some things and cozy for others in the past but neither of those are truly property management softwares. 

But making you pay half I dont believe is right .

In my city houses sell for 150-300k in the pretty good suburbs, but new builds need to be about a half a million in order to pay construction costs, lending costs, make a profit, realtor fees etc.

I don't think it is worth trying to sell half done as you will have a limited pool of buyers.

House hacking is the easiest way to get into RE investing.

My brother now wants to sell his half, how does that work? 

Total gross rents are a bit over $16,000/mo with a little over half of that being net cash flow after ALL expenses (yes, I include capex, repairs, vacancy too).So I suppose the average per door is near $700 in monthly net cash flow.

There are a lot of licensed contractors that do half-*** work, I dont want my tenants fixing my house with those contractors. 

@Diane Chapman Michigan is in the better half of the country when if comes to landlord vs tenants.California, New Yor, Oregon, Washington, to name a few, are all MUCH worse!

I'm considering a value add if the construction costs work out to add a 2nd bath (either full or half) to one property than is a 3/1.