Lastly, the price point is still very cheap here in the sense that you can still find investment deals that hit the 1% rule for 120-180k!

You might suggest that once they get their money back, you split the first $100k (or whatever number makes sense in your deal) 25/75 where you get 25%, then anything over $100k, you split 50/50.  

Single family usually doesn't make much sense from a rent/price ratio in A-B areas unless you are doing a rehab.

@Luke Tetreault I like Jonathan Greenes advice to rank your properties and then figure out what makes the most sense.

Not sure it makes sense to build now

A deal this small wouldn’t make sense as a partnership unless the original intent was to scale and grow together assuming this deal works out.In regard to the financing, if you can’t get it on your own without someone else’s balance sheet and income then it would be very difficult to untangle that partnership since he’d be a personal guarantor right along side you.  

Of course, not everybody is that good at or has the time to do Google searches or know how easy it is to use ChatGPT so it might still make sense for you to provide such a guide to your (potential) clients.If you don't want to spend time reinventing the wheel, you have other easy options:a.

Montgomery county, and now Frederick are becoming too expensive for it to make sense for us right now.My biggest surprise, that's a good questions.

@Cole Starin sometimes it makes sense to sell the WORST property in your portfolio.Another option is why do a LOC on the duplex, when you could just do a $100k cashout refi to pay off all your debt AND keep the property?

This means you need to pad your rehab costs, make sure you have trusted service providers that do great work, and when you run comps be sure to bring them down a bit and see if the deal still makes sense.