Our first two deals were a single family home and a duplex, both are working to help us achieve our goals.

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It's not always easy, because it takes time and experience to learn, but it's a marathon and not a sprint to achieve your dream.Originally posted by @Joanne Santos:Craig,Thank you for this post.

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You can create a management company or parent company to own them all, but you will never really achieve anonymity unless you pay others to run your business. 

Those relationships with contractors, handymen, etc. are key to achieving our goals.

The interest from my investor in this property was the cashflow as is with the potential to increase rents with new tenants as well as the refi value with very little rehab needed to achieve that.

Sell to a landlordPick the one that gets closest to achieving your goals or results in the smallest loss.

As another poster has stated....out of state in the midwest and the south is where you achieve that with a duplex.