My wife and I are tossing around the idea of selling our current home and buying a duplex, moving into the vacant side so we can purchase with less money down and begin our investment journey.here are the details:Sale Price: $250,000both sides are 3 bed 2 bath with one car garagethe listing says the occupied side rents for $1,100location i would classify as high C low B, mainly because everything around is rentals.2853 Hemlock Ct Cape Girardeau MOThoughts, Advice would be greatly appreciated!

Are you focusing on a long term rental, medium term rental (30 days to 6 months), short term rental, or a live in house hack? 

Since he has moved in, there has been a myriad of sports cars and expensive motorcycles that have adorned the driveway.

Who will drive by to check the lawn or look for extra cars in the driveway or three unauthorized dogs in the back yard?

Used to code for a living way back when, but now I've been swinging a hammer in construction for almost a decade.

local vs. virtual - if the greatest REI bookkeeper lives down the street from you, that means that your books only get done when they can physically get to you.

She will drag it out as long as she can if you don't make the call because at this point she's living for free in your house. 

their bookkeeping software leaves a bit to be desired though, i always have trouble connecting my bank accts so i just manually upload the file monthly now. i'll live. i like how simple it is. with RR tenants can pay through the app, they get reminders, you can manually send reminders, they can make partial payments throughout the month, you can pay $5/unit to have their on-time payments reported to the credit bureau to help build their credit, you can do apps and background/credit/eviction report on there.. and yeah in MA there are just so many stipulations around how security deposits can be used i'd rather just not even deal with it. 

Hey guys, im located in Phx,az and would like to invest on my first property here, I would like to know what are my options, I am self employed and bring in about $4k a month (mostly cash )no paper work to trace my earnings (im in the car selling business)  , experian score 630  1 delinquent acct but it was paid off many years ago, Ideally i would like to put down $10k to $15k tops, what interest rate do you all think im looking at.

Recently there has been an increase in petty crime in the area with one of our tenants cars being broken into.