Buy lots of books from Amazon, watch a lot of YouTube videos, start assembling a large and diverse tool collection in gasket-sealed toolboxes and bins.If you play your cards right, that duplex could be a learning experience that springboards you into self-managed action across a wide range of area properties.

Although this is a diary thread, the actual progress has been posted on BP in a series of separate threads; I have assembled links to all of those separate threads here in this single post for the convenience of the viewer to visit them all in whatever order the viewer chooses.inner city duplex part 1-4https://www.biggerpockets.com/forums/843/topics/46...inner city duplex part 5 - 8https://www.biggerpockets.com/forums/843/topics/46...inner city duplex part 9-12https://www.biggerpockets.com/forums/843/topics/46...inner city duplex part 13-16https://www.biggerpockets.com/forums/843/topics/46...inner city duplex post 17-20https://www.biggerpockets.com/forums/843/topics/46...inner city duplex post 21-28https://www.biggerpockets.com/forums/843/topics/46...inner city duplex part 29-36https://www.biggerpockets.com/forums/843/topics/46...inner city duplex part 37-47https://www.biggerpockets.com/forums/843/topics/46...inner city duplex post 48-58https://www.biggerpockets.com/forums/843/topics/46...inner city duplex - the end!

Both Jonna and I have helped first-time investors start down the path leading to their first income properties - that's a good question to ask or point to watch for as you start to assemble your own team in one of Idaho's valleys.

Just need to assemble a good team of contractors including tenant finding agent.

I feel like if I bought a small amount of land somewhere where it's cheap and have a modular home assembled there, it could save tons of money and be a great investment.

@John Moorhouse my company doesn't hire people without college degrees for any job but manufacturing assembly.

Bill Gulley - part of the reason I assembled some of those link collections is because people won't search, and I got tired of seeing people asking the same old Frequently Asked Questions (geez that is FAQ - which BP still seems to lack ... but I digress), and even more tired of answering (or reading somebody else's answer); now that some of those threads have become sticky at the top of a forum, it truly seems that those questions appear much less frequently than previously.

I bought the kitchen cabinets finished and assembled already.

How much cash are you trying to assemble?

Mine charges me random amounts - could be $50 to assemble a piece of furniture (reasonable) but then $30 to hang a picture (1 nail!).