If you just want to be a boring "builder basic" flipper, use the same fixtures and finishes for years and years but if you want to set your flips apart and help them sell faster, you have to mix things up a bit and picking those finishes is TIME-CONSUMING! 

I've found that with a GC and his crews they do stuff about 2-3 times faster than the handyman and saves me a ton of trouble. 

You would make your money back faster and give you some clout to start setting up for retirement.Living with friends is always a bad deal. 

@Robert C.I specifically talked about landlording issues because in my view this website really does have a gaping flaw -- it doesn't do a good job offering quality rehab advice, and some of the people in the forums who regularly talk about their "rehabbing experiences" are probably really good at picking out the most expensive vodkas in blind taste tests but should be beaten with a good thick stick every time they get a random urge to write something about power tools.But I do think that sooner or later, you get to the right answers about LLing here at BiggerPockets, and you get to them faster than trying things out on your own and paying for your own lessons.

The more you practice, the faster you'll get a hang of it and it'll become your second nature. 

You can charge a bit more in rent to compensate the difference in price and it will possibly rent faster than a unit with laminate.

The cost per unit is less, and they’ll scale faster than the duplex’s.If you go SF route then I’d look for grandmas house.

Faster is better so you learn faster. 

Thanks in advance for your time.Myself and other 4 friends have been talking about forming a limited partnership to jumpstart our RE investement journey together.We have a good chunk of cash to start building our portfolio. we are focusing mainly on multifamily properties because we want to grow relatively faster and acquire more properties to grow our portfolio within the next 10 years.

Suggest that you could get a second job to help pay your debt down faster.