The way I see it, a brand spanking new duplex wouldn't be the smartest deal because of the high purchase price and you'd likely not cash flow, if not be in the negative.

Then when you see a lead you like purchase the individual lead.

I need to figure out a base operating cost so I can consider this when I assess land purchase price, but I"m finding it very difficult to asses things like insurance, property tax, utilities etc. on something that isn't build yet.

Hi Everyone, I am purchasing my first SFH, and I plan to live there for a year and share 2 rooms with 2 other tenants, to reduce the cost.

I did some research using Zillow and realtor.com to see if there’s over saturation, average prices for purchase and average rent.

A designer might help you reduce costs and get the property up and running much faster than you could on your own so you have to look at the numbers on a larger scale. 

My wife and I purchased a home in the Seattle area back in 2018.

We use Streamline which is a legacy provider but it is cumbersome and designed for larger scale PM operations (trust accounting, owner portals, etc etc).Just a few integrations we use: Lynx (locks), BookingPal (channel manager), EZCare (HK/Maint Ops), RevMax (Pricing) - There are more, thats off the top of my head. 

My plan to purchase a home wouldn't be the traditional route. 

There are basically two steps: The first step is to close escrow on the purchase with a hard money lender we use.