I am hoping to purchase a duplex soon but will be moving out of state so I am looking for a well oiled machine that will ensure the property maintains a high standard for living.

In other words, your friends will either need to switch up their lifestyles and make time to learn and be active investors in order to scale with speed, or they will need a lot more time or money to scale to 10k passively.Here is how they could do it in 5 years using the 25k in savings situation:Step 1 - begin learning though listening and reading about real estate investing from people who were able to scale starting out with little money.Step 2 - start networking by going to meetups, in person or virtually.

There are virtually no areas of town that I would be okay renting out a unit in a multifamily unit to my family.

I've investigated joining AZREIA since at least at the moment those meetings are virtual - can anyone confirm if these virtual sessions are as fruitful as the original in-person ones?

@Jayquan OrtizGo to local real estate meetups (virtual or in person), listen to all of the BP podcasts, read as many BP articles as you can on the topics you're interested in.

My two units had long term (35+ years) tenants as they were a machine shop.

Laundry, vending machines, etc need to be in the top line)$94,020 x .5 (50% expense ratio) = $47,010 NOI$47,010/0.08 (8% Cap Rate) = $587,625$47,010/0.07 (7% Cap Rate) = $671,571The real opportunities with these properties is in increasing the NOI and keeping good records to pass to the appraiser and future potential buyers that you did so.  

I am wondering if there are any virtual RE meet up groups for investors who are interested in the Indianapolis market?

Has anybody had a virtual assistant cold call for leads?

Maybe they shouldn’t have threatened to sue the guy who called and offered to sell them an answering machine.