You’re saying take a conventional loan, use it to buy a rental and not pull the equity from the condo at all?

@Matthew K. there are tax benefits to either strategy.If you've lived in your old house for 2 out of the last 5 years, you can exclude up to $250k ($500k if you're married) of the gain from your taxable income.If you use funds from a HELOC, you tap into the equity of your old home, pull out money tax free, and invest it.

Hey MattI’m one of those guys that had hangups when someone mentioned vinyl flooring because it raised images of that cheap, peeling laminate that was easily cut and invariably began pulling up, flaking and cracking.  

I just want to pull the trigger on a property and learn from the process ASAP.

He told me one of the first steps was to pull the county assessed tax ticket value. 

There were so many times I wanted to just pull out because I was afraid of the unknown, but thankfully we pushed through at the expense of some sleepless nights.

It turned a 2 car garage into a 1 car garage, but a person can pull a car into the garage, shut the garage door, and still easily get up the ramp. 

Instead, you could either refinance the duplex and pull some cash out, or you could see about getting a HELOC on it. 

My second spreadsheet is mostly pulled from census data/trulia/zillow (so I take the numbers with a grain of salt) but it lists on the X axis the zipcodes as well as the county as a whole.On the Y axis it lists: average listing price, median sale price (90 day period), median sale price versus last year, price per square foot, price per square foot versus last year, median rent per month, vacancy rate, annual property growth value, number of rentals on the market for that month, median rent versus last year, median rent divided by 1BD/2BD/3BD etc etc, median age, median household income, school districts, single residents, college educated percentage, percent home owners, population growth etc (there's more but I feel this is sufficient to get the point)3.)

I've been looking at working examples out there and it looks like the property management % does not pull from other income such as laundry, vending, parking, etc.Is this true?