Good Morning Chris,All three forms of financing are effective enough to execute your first, third, or tenth deal so long as the numbers work for your deal.

Additionally, one of the unit's needs drywall (the seller was renovating it and completed the other two units, but not the third) and a deck.

@Robin Morales Robin I host a meetup the first and third Thursday of the month at my office in Claremont.

Plus if I want to I can add a third unit to the basement which is ground level to live in rent free or Airbnb it.

Rented two rooms, airbnb third, lived in 4th. 

If that is the case, then I'd agree with the two remaining tenants in that they shouldn't be held responsible for the rent owed by the third tenant who skipped out since you have a totally separate agreement with that person. 

From a buyers perspective we looked at all the new 3/2 duplex’s on the market in the third quarter last year in Cape Coral and found them with smaller bedrooms, especially the master, than we wanted.

I currently have two rental properties and hopefully soon a third.

If you are using hard money you need to budget for the points and fees as well as traditional third party closing fees.Repairs: The money it is going to take you to rehab the property plus an extra 10% of estimated repair costs to account for unexpected repairs.Holdings Costs: Here is where a lot of investors get tripped up.

Also, if we hire a third party broker to assist in the sales process (which we would likely do) asking the broker to share the commission could be problematic.Is this commission fee customary, or otherwise reasonable?