You'll spend a few thousand per year, but if you close 1 deal a year you should be able to earn those fees back through agent commissions 2.

The best thing that can happens to you is the first floor tenant moves in the next 30 days and you don't have to wait several years to start earning your additional $800 per month.Don't raise the rent one penny less than $300 if you don't have what it takes.

I do not plan to work part time at the moment as I scale up my portfolio, but will do so once I notice I can rely on my rental income instead of my earned income.

Also you’d have to set up and pay payroll taxes from the company on your earnings or risk under reporting your taxes on your personal return.

You might change the supply and demand for your investment.If you do this, you will have 2 SFH's that if investors want to buy and rent will have to pay 20% down for each vs a low down FHA for a duplex house hack.Your buyers pool might be smaller due to this.Also you will be competing in sales with SFH's which in some areas greatly outnumber duplexes but will have created 2 condos (which in some areas have lower desirability than SFH's or duplexes).Just my 2 cents.

I was really indecisive about what I wanted to be or what field I wanted to work in and after doing a tremendous amount of research on top of school , I figured out that real estate investing was a pathway into unlocking my financial freedom that I so much desire .

It will be easier to fill and more desirable to tenants.

A lot of people who sell as a portfolio use it as a way of offloading some homes that would be very difficult to sell individually with others that are more desirable, so they're not left with the trash after the good stuff has been picked clean.

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