If you don''t feel we are a good fit I know a few other agents that may work as well.

It’s wear and tear on your couch cushions.

The house we wanna buy is close in price, so if we do sell and pay the capital gains we won't have enough funds to buy the new house and also pay off some personal loans and other things.1031 exchange is out of the question, since we never rented the house and we are not willing to....What do you guys suggest we do in this case?

We are looking to start March 2019 as we will have 50k saved up to start.We have have solid jobs in Chicago and are looking at Milwaukee to get the ball rolling,.

We are fairly new to this, we own 2 duplexes.  

My friend's family is poor but I'm planning on helping him fix that with our business ;)We live in the Daytona Beach area in Florida which as many people know is where the NASCAR Daytona 500 is held along with Bike Week so the housing market is ridiculous here (in a good way)We're thinking since we are both going to stay with our parents well into our 20's we should make our first investment on a duplex so we'll have a great financial boost from 2 units funding us.I just want some opinions from experienced investors on how they feel about this plan.

@Alfred Litton We are thinking about the locations you listed because we love the 'burbs north of Dallas.

What I've learned is we are what we tolerate.

We got a 15 year mortgage, with 20% down, but we are currently on a plan to pay it off in about 5-6 years. 

Let’s face it, conditions are unlikely to get better than where we are today and underwriting needs to acknowledge that and build in adverse cycles.