check with your insurance agent.. also federal law dictates that when your owner occupying your 1 to 4 unit you don't have to follow the normal fair housing laws.. you can pick and choose who you want to live in the units .. now some cities or states may have overriding rules regarding this.. but federal law is clear.. on owner occ 1 to 4.. your exempt from fair housing.so you can have a dog and you could restrict dogs for others.there is a well known list of aggressive breeds that insurance companies wont insure.. this is easy information to get.

Would love to pick anyone's brain who is involved in that market if you have the time!

Looking to pick up another with them eventually. 

If finding the right wholesaler were as easy as picking an apple from a tree, everyone would have one.

Looking to pick the brain of an experienced investor in this space in NYC as have some questions and running into a brick wall with DHCR.

So how many have you picked up, how are things going? 

In this market, you can still pick up a rental in the higher cash-flow areas for a solid price.

Any time one cousin is short on cash for whatever is needed, the other one has to pick up the slack.6.

Owner needs to pick them up in his truck every day, pray that there are no parts to return needed and unavailable, watch for the health and safety of every grain of sand, serve food, motivate, problem solve and never cry.  

For example look at the zip code you are building in, for a recent new build in columbus that we do since miami is expensive we pulled all these stats: Zip Code Statistics: 43206Housing Units Delivered: 8 Average Sale Price: 642,875Median Sale Price: 505,000Average Price Per Sq Ft: $316.40Average Square Feet: 2172 Sq FtAverage Bedrooms: 3.25Average Bathrooms: 2.75Average Days on Market: 138We design the house around this, around the lot, around the neighborhood, from scratch and try to pick a long term build design that will do well.