As long as the current house cash flows, could be an easy way to eas into being a landlord.

If you only have one property, using Turbo Tax is pretty easy.

Go easy, first post.For the sake of discussion its a condo but in reality it is a coop. 

Makes the process super easy (usually).

An easy way to get info is to go to your local tax sale/auction.

He has recently approached me about a buy and flip deal that is currently off market, and he says this will garner an easy profit  of $25k after doing the necessary updates.

I’ve been house hacking a 2 family home for 8 years now in NJ and I purchased a condo in FL to rent in 2013 when buying real estate was easy.

(But still a good deal)We are converting the house from 1 family to 2 families and the process with the city was easy.

As I'm researching properties for us, I'm left wondering how this transaction will go down and how I'd pay him.To make numbers easy, let's say we find a $100k MFR and we want to go in 50/50 on the $30k downpayment as well as the subsequent mortgage on that property.  

It wasn't super easy but it also wasn't that hard.