I'm also not a fan of L/O's to buy since you have so little control, but you can do sandwich lease options if you thought it made sense.I did one where the owner bought the house for his son and financed it at 5% I/O, that thing cash flowed pretty well, but I stumbled into it and pitched it because the guy was loaded and had bought the house for his son who was a drug addict and trashed the place and he wanted the headache gone more than the money. 

I've found Estately to be hands down best app on iOS for tracking properties.

I use a shlage with an apple tv as the interface through wifi.

As you suspect, a duplex and an apartment are apples and oranges to most tenants, and the difference in maintenance/repairs/management can be significantly different on your end.One way to get a baseline is to look at other parts of your city where duplexes and apartments are both plentiful in a single neighborhood, and look at the ratio of rents between those two asset classes.  

For these people it's even easier because they have some personal experience to help them out.Now Jay... about this whole "up front" fee business... of course you don't charge them "up front" for a comprehensive real estate investment system to help newbies get started and veterans maximize their profits... because you haven't developed a system like this and you don't provide a system like this to your borrowers.It's really not apples to apples... you do good work and have helped people with a valuable service...

If you find a good company, still be cautious but go ahead and buy it.BUT if you find a once in a generation company (apple, amazon, google).   

Just saying, they used it as the hook.I've never heard of any legitimate product being marketed where a detailed description of the product was so hard to find, can't think of anything from apples to chain saws, to a master's degree to zoo management, just in real estate marketing is the education top secret.  

No offense taken, it's just that the comparison of our Program and AMIG's offering is not on an "apples-to-apples" basis---which is completely fine. 

Enjoying an apple strudel next to a lake and mountain near Strazburg, Austria.  10 years ago I would have been working 7 days a week putting in new computer systems and watching cash flow getting paid well but not reaping the rewards as REI can give you.  

Learning about the different levels and comparing those apples to apples was eye opening.