It is probably over an hour and a half commute 1 way.

I negotiated for them to pay for half of the extension, and half of the basement. 

We have made revisions a half dozen times and each time, I mock up what I would like to see and then let the attorney put it into the legal ease. 

Hi im Johnny..My company invests in real estate located about an hour and a half from Pittsburgh,Pa in a remote/ high demand area.

The property taxes are almost half of what they would be in the other parts of the city I normally purchase in ($2k vs $4k)The new house theoretically will have a considerably lower cap x cost than the 30-60 year old homes I normally look at. 

Half day read BP books and other half call agents where you are interest to invest...This will help you the most

IF Partner 2 shows reasonable signs of being able to execute the deal (hopefully a firm understanding of the process, experience at some level before, or at least watches a lot of HGTV) then that would hopefully earn Partner 2 a third of the deal, or you could argue for up to half of the deal depending on the workload or scarcity of Partner 2.Them's ma thoughts. 

We struggled like this for years and even bought 3 single family homes a hour and a half away from where we lived needless to say we bought 3 more headaches.THEN we had kids and they brought added expenses and we just couldn't keep subsidizing these other families lives.

Would converting half of the garage and leaving a one-car garage maximize appraisal value? 

Where I live there are plenty of houses to buy, and about half of the houses are second homes for folks who live in Nashville or Knoxville.