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By mid November we received a letter from landlord tenant court notifying us that the property management is taking us to court for non payment of oct rent, now mind you in pa if license and inspections deemed a property not up to code the rent cannot be collected while in violation of said codes, they were not up to code by November either, so any who we went to court showed them our evidence and explained why we were not continuing on to live there, the ruling was withdrawn without prejudice?

Save for a down payment.

There are markets in the US though where deals look like:Purchase 80kRehab: 60kARV 190kIf you have good credit you should get 85% financing on 80K, your down payment is 12k, and the 60k will go into escrow for the rehab so you will need to front the contractor money to get started and unlock rehab money. 

I would start small, be safe, look at your options for lending, and find people you trust to help you with everything that goes into a BRRRR.

Do we, for example, sell our current SFR and put all/most of the equity into a down payment on the duplex and have a lower monthly mortgage payment?

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A place that has enough units that we could have renters beyond ourselves that would help offset the mortgage payments we would be paying.The breakdown of what we know we have saved up that can be used for a downpayment:My wife and I: $165,000~, can probably get that to $200,000 within a year.

Trying to assess when it's time for us to set up family trusts/new LLCs/registered agents etc...obviously it's a big cost, but makes total sense.