The BEST method for real estate investing is very simple: increase earnings, reduce expenditures, save, and invest from your own funds.You should focus on increasing earnings and learning how to manage your budget.

Perhaps if your partner was a general contractor or handyman type there may be some merit there to reduce costs / increase profitability.If your partner enjoys deal sourcing, a better move might be for him to become an agent - so he could legally collect commissions from finding deals and managing properties for multiple people. 

With this, along with shifting the utilities to the tenants and reducing the management fee to generate an NOI of around $103k, I'd estimate the value around $1.8M to $2.0M

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The economy is stable—no wild bubbles or busts—and the city is attracting major investments.Elon Musk recently built the world’s largest supercomputer in South Memphis, Ford is investing $5 billion into a state-of-the-art truck plant to the east, and the Medical District is booming with healthcare innovation and development.

This reduces exit options and affects the value. 10) Small number of small units is the most expensive residential development there is.

If this job popped up out of the blue, your intent was not to move within the 1st year, so you may be ok.If you are planning on building a portfolio of homes, it is safest to stick in your home for 12 months to reduce the appearance of potential fraud. 

Manufacturing has gone overseas reducing wages. 4.  

Use your HELOC to purchase the duplex outright for $118K.Your brother’s $50K down payment can immediately go toward reducing your HELOC balance, leaving a remaining balance of $68K.Create a formal lease-to-own agreement with your brother.

Without the high leverage you reduce the top source of return in CA RE which is achieve via the appreciation on a high leverage property.