Well if you back the moving truck up the day you close you will have a tough time proving that you bought it with the intent of holding for investment use. 

This allows you to “catch up” on the depreciation in the current tax year.If you have not filed the last two years' worth of returns, you can amend them if that is easier.

Otherwise, you probably will end up with a cheap, bad at communicating company who you will end up regretting hiring because they aren't actually getting anything done. 

Maybe chat with a financial advisor and have them help you set up an IRA and throw 25k directly into that on a high/medium/low-risk level and watch that slowly grow as a slush fund for further investments. 

Now, I'm seeking to scale up and build my portfolio by investing in multi-family properties.

As we build up equity in some of our properties, we have some similar ideas for ADUs.

I am a physician in NYC, a friend asked me to help a single mother with two teenage children who ended up on the streets after being evicted in Houston.

I lived next door, growing up it belonged to the original homesteader, a little old lady named Thelma.

the rents can be brought up to market value maybe of $5200 but that doesn't make sense either

you can obviously... be patient and just save up from your active income.