Call back as many times as it takes until you get someone on the line that can do this for you.

We do autopay only, so we would get the question why our charge in x months back was different and higher. 

You would just be getting back into more debt on the renovations unless you have enough equity to do it all. 

I have made over 150K from quit claims back to original owners.

Personally, I think the taxes are high and the services you get for your taxes low there.I know people that invest in Detroit but you must know the area down to the street and have excellent property management.However, I just talked to my CPA today about a referral he was sending me who is a client of his that has 30 rental properties in Detroit and selling them all because the City doesn't really help, charges for everything, and they never have given a security deposit back to a tenant after they stayed because of their behavior or lack of payment.

I want to be able to tell the handyman to give me an estimate and give him the code to the lock box to get the key and then have them put the key back in the lock box.

Commercial lenders have really been backing off of their aggressiveness with multi-family as of late.

Derek, Did you ever end up hanging your hat with a broker? 

He has come back after talking to an architect (who happens to be on city council) and let me know that a set of 4-5 townhomes would be possible.

We bought 2 duplexes to start back in February and they are currently cash flowing about $750 each with a 15.22% ROI.