This is a great place to learn and to connect with people so take advantage of all the great resources.

I get it if you have a lot of door under management, but AI still reads like AI, artificial.

Here are a few more "before" photos...

You can deduct it as a business expense, but it is depreciated over 27.5 years.

You would want to find a private money partner for this who wants in on the deal.

After a few long months we secured a long term retail tenant to call this place home.

go to lots and lots of meetups.2. talk to those HMLs and find out what their terms are.3. save up enough so that you have a down payment, reserves, and also enough in cash for the hold period. 

I have a clause in the lease that says the security deposit will be held in so and so bank with so and so address and interest rate will be xyz.

Yes like Min said, its great to have a plan but I would say the action is much more important - I did a few bad deals and learned so much more than I would have if I was just sitting on the sideline planning things. 

Quote from @Mike Sfera: for a duplex, is the BP rent estimate for per unit of combined?