Here are the details of my situation:Purchase price: $9250020%down: $18500Loan balance: $74000Interest Rate: 5.25%PITI: $700/monthARV: 135000Equity: $61000What is the best strategy to get my equity out?

No, I appreciate all the detailed information.

It sounds to me that neither of you have defined the partnership in detail.

Are you looking at the taxes in this type of detail when analyzing a deal and if not what formula are you using when you run your numbers.

I will lay out the details of the property and the city it’s in and what I think about that town.

Don't expect narrative step-by-step instruction to $1 million dollars.

I prefer that to having the agent walk around and show me every detail. 

Note: If you go to the same meeting each month, you can do detail tracking for a month, and can use same detail to estimate expense for rest of the year.( If nothing changed)2) Meals when traveling away from home - 50% is deductible unless the meal is provided to the general public (like Open houses) than it is 100% deductible.

If you want more detail after using the county website ask the home owner to give you a tour or have a great real estate agent that can provide off market data to you.

You should start with a general idea of price point and strategy, which should get you narrowed down a bit, then you'll want to look at job and population growth (City-Data.com) and get a feel for each of the markets, once you have selected a market you can go a bit deeper into sub-markets and unique details of the market as a whole.