If y0ou have a home at 300,000 you have to make 3k a month and finding a home at 300,000 and make that much rent is almost impossible. 

If the interest rate is still a barrier, you could explore adjusting your deal structure or negotiating with the seller to see if there is any flexibility on the price or terms to make the deal more attractive for buyers.Overall, while the interest rate may make it more challenging, it’s not impossible to work through.

Maybe I misinterpreted what you were saying - but it came across as you were saying it's impossible to scale a business like this.

I had tenants that stopped paying rent for 2 years in NY during the pandemic and we couldn't kick them out, i've had tenants move out and leave someone squatting and NY made it impossible to evict them so I had to pay them off, i've had tenants destroy their apartments before they moved out (maggots in the fridge, flushing their kids toys down the toilet etc) so i've dealt with real difficulty.

My girlfriend and I are looking to get into Multifamily real estate investing and have also looked into the possibility of house hacking, although a good affordable property seems to be tough but not impossible in this area.

MLS hands down will get the seller the best price in the market at the time. on having these in 3 markets I got to think finding a buyer to buy all three is going to be near impossible. 

But are you sure that it's impossible to get done remotely, by phone?

However, in this market i find it difficult/impossible to not have negative cash flow after extracting the value add at maximum LTV.  

In the current market, it's pretty much impossible to have any positive cash flow in the 2-4 unit space with long term rentals, unless you're putting ~40-50% down, not only focused on the cash flow per se, but rather simply not being in the negative.

It definitely would be near impossible in Utah.I wouldn't buy under 50k without any experience.