It would depend on my entire experience with them.

I'm under contract on my second house hack property and first duplex.

This new approach has been the best decision I have ever made in my investment journey!

My name is Marc and I am just starting my journey of finding creative ways to invest and make profit from my real estate knowledge.

I'm starting my REI journey taking in all the advice and information I can absorb.

.: Wild idea based on a property in my local market.

I am an attorney, and my wife is a pediatrician.

These are things at the high level I want to be looking at for all my real estate purchases. 

My goal is to achieve financial freedom by age 36 and to understand various aspects such as investing education, strategies, business planning, properties, marketing, and exit strategies.

Never built in Houston before so take my feedback with a grain of salt but I'd put money on it being impossible to build a duplex from scratch for $125 a foot (including everything from drawings, engineering, permit fees, general conditions, labor, material, landscaping).Out here in AZ the builder cost is going to be $200 a foot at best, but add 20% on top of that for the client cost.