Companies have already spent millions of dollars figuring out what's going to work - take advantage of that and just see what you can do to improve it!  

I have $50,000.00 to invest and I found $70000.00 patio home. so I decided to buy with 20%down and get the traditional mortgage but quickly realized that I have to pay roughly $3500.00 load processing fee to get the either 15yr or 30yr loan. question #1 should I use HELOC(which processing fee is in 7 to 800ish) from my home to pay the rest 80% and try to pay off as fast as I can or just get the traditional loan and utilize the tax benefits?

I dont know the Queens Village area that well but I know homes are expensive here in NYC.Do you plan to wholesale the property - figure out what it will cost to buy it, rehab it and then advertise this information to potential buyers.

Larger roof, more expensive fixtures, higher labour costs in more expensive markets.Keep in mind that everything about costs and income are extremely rough guestimates at the very best based primarily on industry data gathered over decades involving millions of investment properties. 

If the deed is silent, presumably the HOA docs say something completely different about garages... and since you should have been provided both prior to settlement, this is stuff for you and your attorney to figure out.

Let me know if you want to network and we can figure it out!

I have roughly $100K in a rollover 401k from a previous employer and I was thinking I could put that in a self-directed IRA to put a sizeable down payment on something that I could personally live in.

It’s in Long Beach if anyone can help me figure out a more accurate selling price of the property.Should we split the meter, convert into official duplex and then sell it?

This obviously can't completely happen the first meeting, but you want to try to figure out who the so-called "heavy hitters" are at the meeting and gravitate towards them.

I am also an agent so I don’t have realtor fees as a buyer myself but if representing the investor is also a possibility, how would that figure into what is considered a fair deal?