Hello biggerpockets,I am trying to understand all the potential *legal* issues I can run into by trying to split a regular single family home that is zoned as such into essentially a duplex with 2 separate tenants, one living in the house and the other in the basement.

I understand the sales aspect of it all but have a heart too.

I understand I cannot look back, but my experience creates a lower-risk profile for investing out of my local area than a true newbie investor. 

I understand that there will be impact to the compounding of the TSP funds that I pull out for the loan, but I am speculating if I can buy the right real estate deal, it may offset that impact and get me on the path to accumulating more real estate via BRRRR that will more than compensate in the long term.This would be a general loan from my TSP to fund the down payment for the bigger loan to buy the property .Has anybody had either good or bad experience with this?

Understanding taxes is a weak point of mine that I'm trying to fix.  

Quote from @Russell Brazil: Stop looking for "good deals,"....instead focus on buying a quality asset in a quality location.I understand what you are saying, however, do you have a standard that you adhere to as far as return on investment?  

I only mentioned it to her casually and I don't think she fully understand. 

I understand that many others have a salary and can't necessarily work harder at their job to get a +$10-50k month.

@Jacqueline Lee I'll 1 up what @Evan Polaski mentioned....Each jurisdiction and city is going to be slightly different, but at the surface there is generally slightly more paperwork to get your property approved and into the system, but once you get it up and running and the first tenant in there, its generally straight forward to get the rent increases etc.A good place to start would be your local housing authority, they may even offer "Landlord" classes to understand the system more.  

If you have zero retirement funds please work on this as well.We could all understand if you said you needed $50k for 60 days.