If you can live in a duplex and use your tenant's rent to reduce your own housing expenses to zero, perhaps even to make a profit on your own housing, that's freeing up a lot of money to spend or invest elsewhere.

Account Closed I have 2 partners with me and the business and I was trying to avoid giving up equity at the moment as most of the people interested really just wanted to collect a little extra spending money on their investments.

If there's an opportunity to knock down and build up, it could be very interesting to spend the money to rezone, have plans done and sell off the a developer in a couple of years.

You don’t need to stage it but look at homes that have been staged and do your best to mimic those without spending more money.

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@Richard SnyderDid you spend (1) 750 or more hours during 2018 in "real property trades or businesses" in which you materially participate AND (2) more than 50% of your personal services preformed during 2018 where in the "real property trades or businesses" in which you materially participate?

But, once you have a property narrowed down, I would spend a few hundred dollars on an independent inspection and have a realtor run some numbers for you.  

It can be done cheaper,does it  worth  to spend more time on searching for a cheaper one, losing time, paying holding costs etc... who knows how long it will take. you might not save much at the end of it.If you know their work, or got referrals, I think it is fine.

Will you spend cash to fix those items as a tenant/contracted Buyer?

Also consider whether the remaining 15% (and the shop building) are items you'd spend money on if it weren't for this specific buyer.