Investing is the passive side where you should be evaluating how to use your money and maximizing roi, depending on risk tolerance of course. 

I know I'm not maximizing it but from what I've used so far, it's been great!

Attorneys and Personal Representatives generally want to maximize profit.         

After all of this I ended up with 2 OREO  of course by the time I got them they were stripped not wanting to lose my 50k I had invested in each one I then rehabbed them and tried to sell them to owner occ's on terms.. ( common method pre dodd frank for lenders to try to maximize bad assets) do I dumped 25k into each of those homes put the owner occ's in and they made it maybe 6 to 8 months before they failed. 

With the duplex you have the option of renovating the side you are NOT living in first, so you can maximize the market rent value.  

but it is even more powerful as a tool to shape your portfolio in both type and geographically to maximize your returns.  

The down side is you are living in a renovation for an extended period of time and if you are doing a lot of the work yourself to maximize profit, the trade off is your personal life.

The property is going to sell itself, you just need a design to maximize your profit, great contractor team and the will to pursue this with excellence.

I would prefer to buy the house in my LLC but I also want to maximize the profits and minimize the tax burden.  

But I want to take the next two one at a time and do as well as I did on this one, so I can maximize the money I have to invest.