It starts a vicious cycle and a lack of trust.If your partner is unsure, help educate them on your why and see if it resonates.

Here’s a step-by-step guide to help you through it:**Understand Local Regulations:**First, you need to check with your local city or county to see if the zoning laws allow for this conversion.

I've been helping folks navigate this market for the past 20 years, and I can tell you, combining a personal residence with rental income is a game changer.Just last year, my friend Dom helped a new investor find a charming duplex in East Austin.

Here are some hopefully helpful tips and a few questions. 

Any help and suggestions will be greatly appreciated! 

I hope that helps. 

We currently are building a SF with the financial help of a family member.

It also sounds like the property needs a lot of work so that could be a reverse money pit if you are supposed to help do the work there to get it to max value to then do a HELOC on.

I've been looking at buying RV Parks, Boat Marines and or Mobilome parks, I've read that SBA and HUD do have loan programs in these areas.My question is who do I contact to help get the ball rolling and pre-qualification. 

I know how to get fantastically accurate estimates for simple single-family deals but was wondering if anyone had advice on where to start for running numbers for 50+ unit deals.Also, if anyone has any advice on helpful systems and technology - or for managing larger scale real estate businesses to be a valuable partner, I'd gladly listen.