However, it is a very deep lot in an area where houses are being torn down to make way for custom home construction for $1.5-2.5 million dollar homes.

@Eric Burch Hey Eric :) Do you sell certain properties in order to fund future construction, and if so, at what point?

It's important to figure out what your business strategy is, and what your value-add proposition is.I know that folks have been successful in each one of these niches in Philly real estate, just depends on what you are looking to do (in no particular order and just off the top of my head, I'm sure that I'm leaving a bunch out): low-income rentals, luxury rentals, flips, vacant land speculation, new construction, section 8/PHA rentals, wholesaling, wholetailing, bird dogging, turn key sales, property management, construction management, financing expert, zoning expert, title expert, business procedure consulting, hard money lending, seller financing, buying subject-to, syndicating deals, 1031 exchange scout, retail sales, etc.Personally, I've set up a pretty decent rental portfolio over the last few years, that's what made sense for my investing goals and setup. 

Mine was construction.

Most "traditional" Chicago 2-4 flats are constructed with the units vertically.  

We are hoping that our background in architecture and construction will help us be successful. 

I know Cartersville has a lot of new construction and is definitely starting to grow more!

I spoke to a few lenders(private and banks) to check my option for funding new construction.

The legal premise at work here is, if that wall is existing the house isn’t new, therefore it can’t be given the same property tax bill as new construction.

Allan, Not sure if you're still looking for a duplex but I thought I'd share this with you...Here's a duplex in Midvale that is going to be under construction soon.