My wife Deanne and I live in the Twin Cities metro and will be heading to the conference the year.

As the above folks noted your are not guaranteed to move into a market that "appreciated" but this isn't true in your instance. 

So your will also be $80k in this instance. 3.

For instance you have to do 15% down on conventional if you plan on house hacking a multi, or you are stuck with Fha for the purchase.

Ever since I got into real estate I've had a few questions raddling around in my head about syndication that I can't seem to get straight:1.

Some of this will depend on who your trying to get as room mates.....meaning maybe grad students near your age (for instance), or anyone. 

I hear about all this 100% financing which is something I am trying to grasp my head around slowly, as Australian Properties (in Melbourne) are a little ridiculous.

Any discrepancy of value in this instance isn't the appraiser's fault (and believe me, there are plenty of instances where appraisers are at fault), but inexperience and probably putting gold teeth in a dead horse.All of those items listed previously are nice and MAY make the house sell faster, but to think they're worth 90K is way off base. 

Still trying to get my head wrapped certain ideas concerning real estate, but I am always interested in learning more as it seems the best way for me to reach my goals of being able to afford a good sized family and actually spend sometime around them instead of 60 hour work weeks.

If this goes over your head, maybe it is time for a bookkeeper?