Feel free to let me know if I can help you.

I'm now realizing that in the state of South Carolina, the tax rate jumps 2% for rental properties to help fund public schools, a $600/mo cost that I didn't account for when using the calculators in the earlier stages.

It's not fun, but it helps the site a lot.

Any insights would be incredibly helpful!

Any advice on educational courses or material that would help me learn multifamily as someone just getting started?

This is really helpful.

At that time we could renovate the ground floor apartment and potentially turn it into (2) apartments for a total of (5).My questions come down to how do we deal with the existing 40k mortgage, whether we can make it work so her parents aren't paying much in rent, if anything at all, and whether or not we set up any legal entity, like a trust to help the legal situation of paying off her sister down the road. 

.- Cant do blanket loan as I own one of the houses in one llc and the other in another llc.Thank you for your help and I hope someone will have good options!

I have the same goals as well and would be awesome to see if theres any way either of us can help each other with our investing goals!

Thank you again for the guidance—it’s really helping me build a clearer strategy for reaching my goals!