Hi Michael, I'd be glad to help answer some questions for you and/or locate a duplex that would work well for your goals.Feel free to connect!

Price range seems to be so fluid from what I'm seeing - as I'm sure you well know this but a home in one town might be $20,000/$30,000 variation in another.

Without knowing all of your specifics, I'd say that it's only worth holding on to if you can reasonably expect to have some really good appreciation in the near future (like 5 yrs)....Or, in the case where it would run well as a vacation rental, you could switch the usage, maybe?

It's likely you'll be able to raise the rent as well with the upgraded unit and you can look to market it during the time of rehab. 

That probably doesn't work well for rents, and the neighborhood will look beat up in 10 years, when almost every house got sold to investors.  

Wishing you all the best in your business as well, and thanks again for the kind words.

LOL.Here raises great point--here are some considerations1) Figuring out how to advertise on Zillow - mentor can help; take 20 to 30 well lit pics with no more than 1 thing on any surface!

@Stuart Udis your absolutely right, as far as the market my biggest issue is that I don’t know that area very well and neither does the agent that is helping me.

Wells, Citi & Chase), but moving all your money for current rates might not be something an investor wants to do. 

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