This will take a lot of work and money, but you should easily be able to sell EACH side for more than a half million, considering your old (I say old because they don't really make 1-1s in Austin anymore) house is worth a quarter million.Again, the info you gave is limited, so if any of my assumptions are off, feel free to disregard, but most likely you are in a good position to significantly increase your net worth.

 @Jim PietyHi Jim,Just to be clear, this property is overpriced due to the quality of the renovations, and as stated, I could not sell it by location, location, location standards- so I sold it for the quality of my work and more importantly, it's cash flow.  

@Patrick Martone I too like the work, and save money by paying myself to perform work I like (tile, trim, carpentry, etc...)With that said, when you are doing the work it is easier to estimate verse a sub or GC.

I do much of my own work and I have 2 teenage kids that I "recruit" into demo and painting.I am a long term "buy and hold" guy so no flipping for me. 

I have no desire to create cash flow that will allow me to leave my current field- I love my work and my business is in great shape.

They do work and evictions are granted in large numbers in regard to these notices.

The plan is to have a neighborhood open house next week to really get people excited about our work and the transformation.

There are no shortcuts you must learn first to play well, I personally spent in the neighborhood of $50,000 leaning what I know, that is not to say the leaning stopped there.

One was for sale at 30k needed little work and rents were 750-900 in the area.

I grew up in Minneapolis, so we looked there first when considering out of state (GA) investments for our niche but couldn't make the numbers work and decided to focus on suburban Detroit instead.