(Need to commute to midtown w/o a car and for it to be safe enough for my girlfriend to be comfortable walking alone in the evening)I’ve thought about D4D/direct marketing but I don’t know how effective it would be in the NYC area?

Come on, the smart money is betting on a dip or if no dip you lock in high yield debt funds at the turn of the rates and investing in small cap areas that need to tighten to the large cap ratio wise.

The money isn’t her nest egg.

On the flip side, having more choice in location with an existing product could be advantageous to both his personal life and the earnings potential; add in the second unit having the potential of being a STR/MTR and location becomes even more important.The contract/permit side CAN be challenging location by location; assuming he's working with someone who knows what they're doing, Raleigh makes it easier to get permits for these larger "small scale" projects than Durham.

I vote spend the time and money:)

Most lenders will require any partner with 20% or greater ownership to be on the loan docs, but I have seen occassions where lenders pushed that requirement down to 15% or even 10%.

Each time we get a continuation even with the police report the arrest record, so I reach out section 8 after reading the HAP lease I signed with them and the tenant and was told this is not their problem.

I like them both.I’ve now committed to the up to 11 property annual subscription on Hostfully even with 1 property I’m basically giving myself no option other than to make it work. 

I have found two classes with membership options but I am having a hard time deciding which class or if I even need a class.

Even if you create a non-CA LLC, if you are managing the business from California, you will likely be deemed to be "doing business" in California and therefore likely subject to CA taxes.