Rents seem to have increased a lot in Minneapolis in the past two years that we've been gone.

Hello fellow BP, I noticed there was an increase in the assessment of value of one of my properties in Indianapolis.

People's tolerance increases and the the pain starts to come back and doctors are afraid to keep raising the dosage so then people start to buy them from whoever they can. 

Woodland Hills market trends indicate an increase of $10,000 (1%) in median home sales over the past year.

Want to hear your advise on how much the rent should be increase for such a good tenant.

I did do a fair bit of remodeling myself while I lived there.Best purchase we will probably ever make since it was 5k down for 160k duplex (worth 230k now after 10k or so in remodeling and increased rents) and cash flow of $800-900/month now!

Or just ask them what the biggest increases to value would be on the property and how much each would add, whether they can be done individually (sometimes doing one thing on a list won't improve the value as much as the whole list).  

With a bigger down payment (25%) your cash flow will increase some.

I wanted to put this out there as a contest to ramp up responses and ideas for creative financing approaches to see who can help me in figuring how best to structure the deal to minimize my risk, increase learning opportunities during the process, and maximize returns in light of minimizing risk.

So you have increased your equity position and have more investable cash than you started with.