Feel free to shoot me a DM if you want to talk about the market in more detail. 

The podcast also talked about insurance claim re-housing where families lose their homes to a tragedy and get replaced through their insurance.

The SEC claims Fossum misappropriated hundreds of thousands of dollars from the funds by living rent-free in a fund-owned home and having the funds pay for extensive international travel and his federal taxes.

I'd talk and look at forums at strategies but with your capital you typically need 100-150k in liquidity to do this. 

Stop hanging out with your deadbeat buddies who spend all day drinking, talking sports, and otherwise wasting away.

With RentRedi you are reduced to talking to a "BOT" until an agent decides they want to chime in (still only on a chat window no phone numbers for RentRedit).

It is cheaper, in general, to sub out like you say but if you have no experience sequencing the work and talking to subs you may be scarring them off.

After talking to another family member they said they would be willing to go in on the duplex and offered to pay the $40,000 down payment and help with any repairs but they want to be "partners" or "own" a percentage of the duplex.

Stop hanging out with your deadbeat buddies who spend all day drinking, talking sports, and otherwise wasting away.

What the people that I talk to find is that they don't need to be confined to one area.