He's getting out of there while the getting's good from his perspective. 

They will never see the potential of what we are all doing unless they to have their own paradigm shift.

You will start to grasp all of the different benefits of owning real estate and learn the different real estate investing strategies pretty quick.Plus your experience as a firefighter probably will translate over to your investing business, just because you are getting a very deep perspective on different neighborhoods all around your market.

From a value perspective my best guess is an appraiser would value it similar to a duplex.

Thanks for your advice, check this company at Miami, they offer for foreigns the full outsourcing of the process so they look for the property, rehab, rent and once finished property management, so sounds great.As an expert, could you please look at the home page and give some comments,  from my perspective it makes sense to work this kind of proposal....

Hi - it's time to for me to shift from accidental investor to "real on purpose" investor LOL.

. :) just from a women's perspective.

Have you had an experience where things looked great until a discovery or inspection radically changed your perspective on the property?

I've received unfavorable feedback from unqualified tenants; from their perspective, my screening process is "over the top" (as one put it), because I was renting the basement "not a real apartment." 

@Daniel Callahan speaking from a lending perspective there are loan types out there that can help you.