- Duplex- pro's- renter's rent money will pay for half of mortgage, after that is paid off, move to a house, have passive income x2, most living space. con's- biggest down payment, outside the city, risk of terrible renter, locking us down for at least 7-10+ years to at least make it worth it.Overall, I hate wasting money.

With your seed money, starting with multiple units right off the bat could leverage your entry into real estate investment and rapidly scale your portfolio to help you replace your 9-5.

In which case you may be better off cutting bait and doing something on your own rather than waiting for them to make more mistakes.On the other hand I'm curious how they are going to pay you off with such a great return if they are under performing?

The cellphone carrier will turn off the cell phone service if payment is not made. 

They have their attorney's draft them and they stack many of the fees that the seller would normally pay and push them off onto the buyer.

This is why you must evaluate properties not strictly off intrinsic #s like people did in low rate era.

One home is completely hands off and works like clockwork. 

I just got a cash flowing seller finance deal off market in Hemet, CA.

If someone refuses to allow us to copy an ID so the police can have a lead to go on when our bodies are found in a ravine off of I4, then it's not worth the risk for us to show the house. 

I have owned 3 different RE brokerage companies over the past 40 years and that's the stat's for AGents coming in to the business 10% will make a darn nice carrer out of it another 40% will do Ok and keep at it on and off over the years the rest come and go..