Thanks Christian, I’m definitely absorbing all the information I can as I go.

in 04 I listed 22 duplex's in Vancouver for a flat fee of 30k each.. sold them all in one weekend in the crazy days of that era at a big event I put on in San Francisco.. builder netted what he wanted which was 200k each .. builder under a lot of pressure from his construction lender and the local market was not absorbing them.. pretty sweet deal..

We do not currently have the funds to absorb a failure of the heating system, but there's enough income to budget 10k annually for capex and still hit a 10% cap rate, so it's something we could remedy within the first year or two.I reached out to a business contact and asked if he would secure contingency funds in exchange for a percent of AFFO (basically, we'd pay him a portion of the income in exchange for the right to use him as a private lender in the event that one of the systems failed before we replaced it).

Trying to absorb all of this info on BP is akin to drinking from a firehose!

I'm a new investor and have been analyzing lots of deals and absorbing as much information as possible.

Sorry if this is a dumb question I'm just trying to absorb everything I can.

My back-of-napkin math so far seems to suggest that going for the bigger unit won't necessarily bring in a lot of extra rent, but could add a lot of value when I sell it, so I'd be absorbing a lot of extra taxes for the time I own the property.Any thoughts or insights would be appreciated,Michael

You can reach a point, at a relatively small number, of having enough rentals that you're done looking for deals altogether, and just absorb the cash and deal with the occasional repair and vacancy. 

I'm getting my LLC together, and trying to absorb as much information as I can.

Read and absorb the information that is here on BP.