I am not sure though how to find those kind of partners and how attractive that would be to others.Going the rental route seems like a good way for me to go also but I'm not sure if I can scale it and make it cash flow with the prices and interest rates.I would love to hear any thoughts or ideas on what I've been thinking.

@Devin Dang any ideas?

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@Amanda GeorgeBelieve it or not, it's a controversial topic.

The first two ideas would be rent by the room and/or making it a mid term rental if those make sense. 

A friend of mine has been investing in Real Estate for 7 years and turned me on to the idea a couple months ago. 

Thank youAnantTwo people who both don't have experience investing in a specific market 'teaming up' is a bad idea assuming you mean to buy a property together.If you are talking about bouncing ideas off each other, I think that is healthy.

The prior history was there before to indicate it was a bad idea, but she rented to them because she felt sympathy for their situation.

The idea would be to use 50% of the total credit line being offered, to be conservative, for a downpayment, principle, improvements, etc. 

My first thought is to build 15 Duplexes as i like the idea of being able to sell one or several if needed as any point in the future.