Banks will be Leary of financing a property that needs work and hard money lenders wil not loan to homeowners because of the additional regulations. 

If you buy a partner out you will not either except the addition of the new basis.

If you are already zoned for multi-family, then adding an additional unit should be as simple as completing what some communities call a change of use form.  

@James Carpenter, along the lines of finding a "good few" as mentioned above, in addition to networking personally at the REIA meetings, I would network with investor-friendly title companies.

We include the snow blowing in the rental contracts and just figure that average cost...add it to the rent.  

2) If I did decide to exit before the deadline, there will be such a run-on-the-bank that my notes would sell at a huge discount (in addition to the loss of value described in #1).Maybe I should look at the silver lining and jump in and buy a bunch of discounted notes on Folio.Text of e-mail:A Message from Prosper and Folio InvestingWe are writing to let you know that as of October 27, 2016, Prosper will no longer offer the Folio Investing Note Trader platform, the secondary market for Prosper Notes.

I dropped the price by $10,000 2 weeks ago and have only had two additional lookers and still no offers.

But it often requires your own detective work in addition to the reports they give you.

My realtor and I have been scouring the Minneapolis market and we're in the process of potentially securing additional properties (if the price is right).  

Most of of the sloping occurs in the area of the home that is an addition.