In most states you cannot manage property for another individual or entity if you are not a licensed real estate brokerage.

This will give you a pretty good idea of your local market as well as whats going on in individual hoods.

Spending some weekends on a busy site would teach you a lot.It might be better to breakdown what you want to learn into sections.

Would it be best to rent them individually, then offer a discount for both?

You lease the entire property and then sublease the individual units.

I do not use big renovation companies, but rather, rely on individual contractors who I've established a relationship with over the years.

For what it's worth here are my observations.........1- 80% of the information on investing in real estate being sold ranges from totally worthless to incorrect and or possibly illegal2- another 10% might work under some circumstances but either the recipient of the information needs a much more educated and experienced background than he is led to believe or the circumstances regarding the success of the method being sold are limited to a certain geographical area or a certain type of market3- the 10% of information that has value requires work, dedication, persistence, education to be used successfully.4- Certain types of individuals can self study utilizing free information available online and learn as much or more as any program or course will teach them5- most gurus are not currently successful using the methods they teach; they may have once been successful in a particular type of market or in a particular location, but they are not currently utilizing the method they teach successfully.

I know some may give flak jumping to the conspiracy theory tag lines, but there is just a hand full of individuals who control a vast swath of our economic flow, and things have moved in very odd ways, ways in which they could only move thru manipulation.

At the moment, 58% RE, 22% Cash and 20% Equities.Equities are maybe 50% mutual funds, the rest individual stocks.I like steady dividend plays like MO, PM, KO, SJI, O etc, but will go out on a limb for riskier bets, like F in the 4's ;>).Was in and out of AAPL several times the past few weeks for some quick gains.Cash position is a little on the low side due to a recent RE purchase.

Equity splits, or coaching/teaching type like Joshua and others post asking about?