When you guys buy a house to live in for a long period of time, do you buy as an investment hoping for appreciation or based simply on a budget and find something that meets your location, size, and architecture requirements?

I have wholesaled plenty houses and received nice sized checks at closing. but I would like to know if the process is the same.

( assume job of a certain size?

What crowdfunding Jobs Act helps provide is a platform for smaller investors doing transactions under $500,000 in size who cannot not access the private equity groups or funds and do not have syndication capital raising contacts.

We had to keep the original foundation/footprint in order to be grandfathered.We built a duplex about twice the size of the original home.Each side is close to 1900SFKitchens sell homesBathrooms help sell, too. 

Even with this background, my father insisted I obtain a formal educationI now have almost 50 years of personal experience that spans many segments of the real estate, finance, and business professions with many different sizes of projects, including a year-round ski resort.This much education is not a requirement to be successful.

I agree with @J ScottI actually had the costs for holding/selling a bit higher assuming use of hard money (Which for a project that size I would use) so my $330K buy price only had the profit about $6K higher assuming that $35K budget.How sure do you feel on that?

Recent sales in the neighborhood were 40-80K depending on condition, all similar size and layouts(large yard, detached garage, 1500-1700 sqft).

Risk assessment, at least an accurate assessment is mostly impossible for an individual and I'd doubt it's that accurate at a mid size institutional type either.While I understand some of your unique industry, inner-office phraseology such as "capital waterfall" it's not that well understood nor applicable to individual note investors here, while I understand it seems to embellish some sense of expertise in a post, it's poor communication to our audience and simply takes us to conceptual aspects rather than realistic and relevant analysis.

I have purchased houses which needed no repair and have purchased houseswhere the rehab cost was more than twice the purchase cost.Some factors are : size of house, number of kitchens and bathrooms, age, etc.