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I was just in the middle of a draft of my blog and will have it out tomorrow regarding buying 2 Homes in 1 Year with 8.5% down.

@Young Moon I actually wrote a blog post on the DC areas lack of multi family housing.

I suggest you read this BP article for ideas:https://www.biggerpockets.com/renewsblog/2016/01/1...Now To answer your questions:1.

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@Brian BurkeIf you have your friends run Ben's blog posts and Brandon's books through some analysis software, you'll quickly see Brandon is Ben's ghost writer.  

@Chris Sia, this article should give you some guidance.

Honestly, I have just started to educate myself on the real estate investing and this whole time I was thinking the only way to invest in real estate is either all cash or conventional mortgage till I started reading blogs here and took the free mini course.

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