starting with a Single family or Mulit family? advice

[Evan Coburn]

i want to end up in multi family homes in the long run, but i have no money down, no money for vacancy,repairs,rehab, etc.. my idea was to start with a single family home(easier) with good equity, live in it. but fix it up a little & house hack to pay my mortgage. then a year or two down the road pull out the equity or even sell and purchase a multi family home that way ill have more money to back me up. how does that sound as a first investment? 

[Greg Miller]

Sounds like a great plan! House hacking is a wonderful first step to build sweat equity. Remember, you can get a FHA loan with only a 3.5% down payment. You just have to live in the place for 12 months.