I'm from Chicagoland area, and I'm running into a lot of duplexs that have confirmed tenants.

@Aissatou DialloThe day I posted this message I received confirmation that the order was ready to be shipped. 

Your agent should be able to confirm that.

I read somewhere that tax assessment only gets triggered when a >50% share transfers ownership, but I have not confirmed. 

I would confirm that's not the case for an FHA refi.

Once I started growing this real estate thing, however, and I realized the opportunities that were out there if I only had the capital, I had to develop new skills in terms of BRRRRR (buy, rehab, rent, reserve, refinance, repeat), generating outside capital, deal analyzing, etc. a lot of which I had not ever done before, or had never applied to real estate.

You want to make sure you have reserves for vacancies and also for unexpected repairs of making the place rent ready when a tenant moves out. 

FYI if you need 3rd party confirmation: Yes, rates got about 45 bps worse today, compared just to yesterday.

To help veterans and active duty (and of course, eligible Guard & Reserve) buy a home, the VA through the VA home loan program will guarantee 25% of the purchase price up to a certain amount (usually known as the Conforming Loan Limit), enabling us to buy a home with a 0% down payment and no PMI.  

As long as you carry sufficient reserves, it's a great way to grow wider faster.