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Terry Sain
  • Rental Property Investor
  • Manchester, TN
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Building duplex vs buying SFH for renting

Terry Sain
  • Rental Property Investor
  • Manchester, TN
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Trying to decide on building a duplex or find single family home to rent. I have a small construction company so I could keep cost down. Anyone been in this situation before?

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Joe Scaparra
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  • Austin, TX
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Joe Scaparra
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What is there to decide? Where are you thinking about building? What is your goal? A duplex will get you better cash flow, have less risk in a downturn, and should be easier to rent due to asking rent price. Since it will be new it should attract as well as an SFH. I live in Austin, TX. If I was deciding it would be easy.......duplex all the way!!! Cheers.

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