Owner in crap house vs. renter in a maintained house. 

Morris county, NJ has a great combination of natural landscapes, A and B residents, and a growing job market.

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Combine that with the additional rent and it could be worth it.

I have also listened to every podcast multiple times.To give everyone a little background on myself: I recently withdrew from an accelerated combined undergraduate/graduate degree program after the first year of the MBA portion for reasons I will discuss below, and subsequently was awarded a Bachelors Degree in Business.  

So that's 1/2 inch dip, not enough for me to give a crap about, so I left it like that. 2" is a lot though, so it might be some settling or erosion under the foundation.

We may purchase the entire portfolio and some combination of them.

More likely to happen is the bank says you payoff family 200k and we give you a straight first position up to 75% ltv.The 525k property you are pretty much at 75% ltv so nothing much to do there.Your personal residence about 710k pulled out with 75% ltv.You have about 1,800,000 equity combined to draw from.

Since taking this position I have been obsessed with learning everything from becoming an agent, investor, or a combination of both.

You can find utterly stinking piles of crap which have great cash on cash returns that look good but are bad investments.