Outdoor space, including parking, living areas, and potential expansion, can enhance the property's appeal.Location should be considered, as properties closer to tourist attractions may command higher rental rates but may also come with higher purchase prices.

Savings accounts and treasury bonds are paying decent interest rates right now, so if OP needs a year to save up more he actually has options for the first time in years. 

For a duplex, you won't need more than 5 gallons a minute flow rate.

Smaller industrial properties have maintainedimpressive occupancy rates and rising rents for several years, and in recentmonths they have increasingly stood out as one of the best-performingcategories of commercial real estate.To learn which U.S. markets have the most acuteshortages of smaller industrial space, CoStar ranked the 60 largest U.S.markets based on the composite scores of three criteria: current availabilityrates for industrial buildings smaller than 50,000 square feet; the mediannumber of months on the market of 10,000-25,000-square-foot industrial spacesleased in the past 12 months; and the median number of months on the market ofindustrial spaces smaller than 10,000 square feet leased in the past 12 months.

By buying as primary it allows you to get a loan that is fixed for 30 yrs and it will have the least cost meaning rate.

Then we calculate the cap rates and rank each property.

Rental rates?

I collected MTR comps and ran the numbers, and found that I might get an extra 15%-20% from a MTR, but I'm not sure if the vacancy rate I plugged in was reasonable (I'm in a mid-size city and my properties are close to Universities, hospitals, and other things that attract MTR tenants, so hopefully I'd have low vacancy...but I like to play it safe with my numbers, so I try to allow for a good bit of vacancy)... ...plus, all the comps I collected were just listings this month, and I don't know how much they're affected by seasonality, so my rent data might not be super accurate... ...maybe I'll give it a test run with one unit that's opening up in May, and see how it goes...

Hello DFW multifamily operators/investors,We are observing an increase in delinquency rates in DFW area, sometimes above 5%, for workforce housing even with strict qualifying criteria.   

For example simply filing a quit claim deed to transfer the properties to one entity (existing or new) would be easiest however that may not be an option if you have loans in place...