@Brian Roberts Welcome...are you in Ashtabula County...beautiful up there on the lake (in the summer) ;) Congrats on getting going on your first deal. 

I’m located in beautiful Lancaster County, PA.

Beautiful! 

It's a beautiful turn of the century duplex that I renovated when I purchased and lived in one of the units then renovated a single family which I later sold.

Great job on this flip - looks beautiful.

People say to me that a person being a helicopter is Impossible and I'm ****ing retarded but I don't care, I'm beautiful.

Having witnessed the carnage of bankrupt landlords firsthand, I swore off of debt.

It's something I've witnessed first-hand at the company I work for.

This is going to be kind of "off the cuff" so if there are some inaccuracies, please let me know.Alright, so the beauty behind a live-in flip is that it is your primary residence and I believe if you have lived in it as your primary residence for 2 of the last 5 years, you are able to sell the property, up to a certain limit, without capital gains tax.If you lived in one side of a duplex and rented out the other, I believe the same rules apply but you would only be able to take advantage of half of the benefit because only half was your primary residence.My question is, is it possible (legal) to live in one side for 2 years and fix that side up, move to the other side for 2 years and fix it up, then sell the duplex within a year so you would still have each side your primary residence for 2 of the last 5 years and be able to capture both sides as a primary residence exemption?!?

It must be enjoyable to you to be apart of this, and be able to witness these changes!