There are three ways the government actually creates currency, only one of them actually creates a physical bill.

Good Evening to most of you, I am looking at picking up a pair of duplexes each for $144,800 and was hoping that the community could give me some feedback on the purchase.

you can normally get a pair for about half price and if the tenants take good care of them you can normally resale them for about the same price.

Google "paired sales analysis".

Both Zell and Dalio don't believe the dollar will be the Reserve Currency of the future.

Pair that with the fact that most places rent for 1000-1400 in B and C neighborhoods and usually cost over 200k and you can see that your returns here will be minimal or negative unless you cut corners like no property management and go light on CapEx and maintenance percentages.

Also have assets equalling the purchase price of the new house in either IRA's, brokerage accounts, currency and credit is excellent.

Maybe it's more of a appreciation play paired with buying a super deal. 

Agree with David, with all those things considered along with operating expenses like landlord/liability insurance, property tax, certain utilities if you can't push them off to tenants and so on, if those expenses paired with your reserves and PM expenses can't work with the extra ~$300/month after mortgage payment then you'll have to come out of pocket.

You can try to work this out by finding pairs of very similar properties that have an equivalent difference to the difference between your property and your comp.