Adding additional square footage to a flip is a time consuming and costly option best left to someone with construction experience.

Both placing and evicting a lease to own tenant are now much more time consuming, costly, and difficultThe law was implemented in North Carolina in 2010, but many are just hearing about it.

Dodd Frank applies to consumer lending, not commercial transactions.

My plan would be to buy the duplex under a consumer loan,  live in one side,  rent the other,  and use the condo as a vacation rental, which will conservatively cashflow about $235/month.  ($100/night with 25% vacancy = $2100/month ÷ 50% $1050/month.  

Due on sale, Dodd Frank, Consumer Finance Protection Bureau...... not so relative.How could you know what you are selling when you don't understand what you are buying?  

Out of my 1000 I probably have 40 on the DNS list, so hopefully it won't be real time consuming.

Class C (older building & blue collar tenants n lower quality), you will be chasing rents, picking it up, hearing stories on why rent is late etc....older building meana more maintenance, regardless who ever is doing it, it's time consuming to do and or to arrange. 

Also...in commercial land, we are not set up to send out proof of fund letters like on the consumer side.  

I know of no other type of investment vehicle that would allow exchanges of like kind with no tax consequence.In summary, real estate investing is the easiest, safest and least time consuming (common man's) path to financial independence.

If you want I will do your service for free and send you a consumer report free.