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Combine that with the additional rent and it could be worth it.

I have also listened to every podcast multiple times.To give everyone a little background on myself: I recently withdrew from an accelerated combined undergraduate/graduate degree program after the first year of the MBA portion for reasons I will discuss below, and subsequently was awarded a Bachelors Degree in Business.  

We may purchase the entire portfolio and some combination of them.

More likely to happen is the bank says you payoff family 200k and we give you a straight first position up to 75% ltv.The 525k property you are pretty much at 75% ltv so nothing much to do there.Your personal residence about 710k pulled out with 75% ltv.You have about 1,800,000 equity combined to draw from.

Since taking this position I have been obsessed with learning everything from becoming an agent, investor, or a combination of both.

Sounds like it was a combination of yellow letters plus good, old-fashioned hard work that got the deal done. 

I mean if I combine the two companies into one entity.

Cashflow, appreciation, some combination?

I actually used a combination of those to find the HOA.What I did was go to Google Maps - I couldn't get the street view of the house because the google car can't drive through the gated community - so I used the little yellow man to identify where the street view would be for the front gates of the community.