Curious what's the advantage to calculating it per unit instead of the building, TY

Calculate the potential cash flow and return on investment to ensure it aligns with your financial goals.Purchasing a duplex and house hacking: This option offers the advantage of living in one unit while renting out the other, potentially covering most or all of your housing expenses.

Is “purchase price” $350k or $50k when calculating for some of these analysis metrics?

One of our staff would calculate interest principal hand write it in the book and mail it back.. that went on for 5 to 7 years which were the terms of our notes.

Pay no taxes as its a non-taxable event.2.

Maybe you can calculate proper lawn watering costs and give the tenant that amount as an allowance.

BiggerPockets also has a calculator you can use to analyze deals and I highly recommend you start this as soon as possible, even if you are not ready to buy.

I read the book Rental Property Investing by Brandon Turner, did some research, played with the buying calculator and rental, listened to some podcast.

Another thing I think that is worth noting is for people who don't have much of a net worth or much opportunity taking a calculated risk in real estate can be a great way to bring some freedom to your life down the road. 

Then there is another “commercial” one that had “potential” of $175k profit about that she is using in her calculations- well somehow we got to the point everything was done- DD, photos, drone, marketing listings etc. realtor contacts me - come to find out - this isn’t even the RIGHT parcel!