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Cost segregation and advancing depreciation has its pros and cons depending on what the individual investor's goal is.

Ultimately, it’s about trusting your gut and assessing each situation individually.

For instance, in my private lending, I dont really give a numerical credit score much weight, but I absolutely look at the composition and history of the individual tradelines on a report if the borrower is a smaller outfit, such as a single member LLC or similar solopreneur-type operator.

I really don't know the market there well enough to guess the definitive answer but I know when I break down the data in my own market, I see a wide variation in price trends in the individual price bands.

This duplex will most simulate TWO INDIVIDUAL HOUSES.  

Though I would caution you on hard money lending until you understand the industry a bit better, that can be very rewarding but you have to be able to do your due diligence on deals because you're turning over your hard-earned money to an individuals project, often a flip. 

I'm excited to join this group of like-minded individuals passionate about real estate investing. 

If you take the individual investor model, you need to find a Whale.  

The idea is to convert a multi-family building into condos; but not in the traditional sense where you separate pre-existing apartments into their own condos; but in a way where you combine the common areas of all of the apartments in that whole building, and turn the individual rooms within those apartments into condos themselves; thus transforming the hallways, kitchens, bathrooms, living rooms, dining rooms, porches, balconies into common areas of the condos.