Even that manager needs to be really hard worker and skilled in so many different areas...sales, marketing management, hiring, firing, reservations, computer skills, and more.   

Also, it lends itself to unconscious bias because we are more likely to view negatively people who are different than us.

I think I'm just not understanding what sort of realtor would be willing to help do something like this because I assume most realtors are used to finding you a move-in ready primary home and that's really what they know, and that the price needs to be a certain level to get a worthwhile commission.

So that helped.I personally wanted to be more conservative as I pretty much reach “the number” that I needed (note that what “I needed” is different from what “I wanted” or what I was expecting by default.)

Duplex have different zoning that may permit additional units.

In that case you need to pay the difference.

Its just kind of the nature of the beast and investing were over 50% of all homes are rentals its a different lifestyle than what we are used to at least on the west coast were maybe 10% of SFR's are rentals  renters rent apartments.

Each property is different, however an engineered cost segregation study typically takes about 4-6 weeks to complete in order to ensure a quality cost segregation study.HOW MUCH MONEY CAN A COST SEGREGATION STUDY SAVE ME?

We are interested in doing something different for our next purchase up there.

A nice home that may some day make a bad rental but a good primary home An exchange in to a state without state income tax to save that 10% in state income taxes.