Newbie from Minneapolis MN

[George Springer]

Hey everybody! My name is George Springer (not the baseball player, I wish :)). I don't have real estate investing experience but I was an electrician for many years and have experience in different trades as far as my real estate experience goes. I now am an employee of the city that I live in and am also a volunteer fire fighter in the same city. My short term goal is to owner occupy a 2-4 unit building using an fha or 203k loan within a designated geographical location (specifically the mounds view school district). I would like to use the BRRRR strategy that will snow ball into our buy and hold investing career. I found Bigger Pockets by searching google for specific questions I had about real estate and BP would always be in the top searches. Finally when I had a question I would skip google and go straight to bigger pockets where I became a member. So as long as I am writing my first post I might as well ask my first question! In my area there are not a lot of duplex, triplex and 4plex properties that are on the MLS as I understand this is not the way to find most of your great deals anyways. So in an effort to find off market deals is there a way to get a list of duplex triplex and 4plex properties in my specific area? Or do i need to drive, walk, run my streets to find these properties? Thank you! Its great to be a part of this community.