With a Roth SDIRA, which effectively can be opened by any one without income restrictions, all income like rents, and all capital gains such as from selling real estate would be TAX FREE for your life time and your beneficiary's lifetime.

That way you can have money in your pocket, a lower payment to increase the cash flow of the rental, and you will still have 25 percent equity in your house. 

Is it really better than joining a college fraterinity,Will I truly make thousands of life-time connections?

Let's also assume that there is a rate adjustment built in for year 5, since that is fairly common in commercial lending.Where we are with interest rates today we may never see again in a life time, rates will likely inch up over the next several years.  

Construction loans lend at 70 to 80 percent loan to cost so you have to put down more money as new builds carry more risk than existing product.If you were going to buy a duplex you might as well get a quad instead. 4 units if one goes vacant you are at 75% occupied versus 50% for a duplex so you have better breakeven occupancy to service the debt ( mortgage ).If you have limited funds going FHA might be the way.

A total of $1,339,839.22 in liens not sold.Number of liens sold to investors:2015 - 7672014 - 1,0622013 - 1,220Total dollar of liens sold:2015 - $752,379.782014 - $1,359,566.572013 - $1,868,433.33Average rate of return overall:2015 - 6.52% (12.58% if you include the Struck to County which all get 16%)2014 - 6.58%2013 - 6.83%Number of Investors who won liens:2015 - 682014 - 692013 - 106Total Number of bids for all liens:2015 - 4,3112014 - 6,2542013 - 54,255,0890You bid down the interest rate in 1% increments from 16% down to 0%.Rate Percent that had the most number of bids overall:2015 - 5% 551 bids2014 - 7% 1,162 bids2013 - 7% 18,001,058 bidsMost bids per lien/parcel:2015 - One lien had 35 bids2014 - One lien had 38 bids2013 - Two liens each had 482,840 bids I had more Use Descriptions for Coconino than Yavapai so there are more rows to break down the results for the lien auction among Property Uses.Again Vacant land had the highest rates and a large number of liens available:

I'm a GC in the NYC metro area but have, over the past fifty years worked in other areas of the Northeast.

If an Agent brings a wholesale deal for me, HOW MUCH or what PERCENT should I pay an Agent after I sell the property by MYSELF to my cash buyer?

some people have developed a really strong formula where they buy properties in the "mill hill" section of Baltimore. 21223 for 20k or less (being a realtor you'll find them), then they do a really nice rehab on them. (30-40k)...then throw a section 8 tenant in them for 12-1300 a month.....not quite that easy, but essentially, that's it. ....refi them at 80 percent finished arv,...good cash flow.

Great = +10%, average no percent, poor = -10%hope that helps.I still struggle with 7 being the right number.