Not a small deal.This is basically the same post I have made before.

They cover many basic things that won't be covered in any detail in podcasts on investing.

With your 50k you are probably in that 300 to 400k range with 5 percent down and I would want the other unit to rent high enough that rent minus PITI minus a basic maintenance reserve gets your out of pocket housing cost close to break even or under about 500 a month while you learn.

It basically turns in to a how long have you owned it meter. 

Basically plan for the divorce prior to the wedding.  

Get back to the basic, get more education, and for goodness sake operate business properly.The gurus teaching all the weird ways of doing real estate don't make money doing what they teach, they make all their money selling you a THEORY.

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The value for us was basically paying 3k/month for a project manager, which we built into our reno costs and fit our model.  

Instead of focusing on the basic fundamentals: buying good properties, managing expenses, maintaining the asset, and operating responsibly, people are drawn into strategies and systems that make the process seem far more complex than it needs to be.

Once you get a piece of property under contract, then you're outsourcing all of the entitlement work to experts and basically managing that part.