What are your short term 1 year medium 3-5 years and long range objectives 5+ years and how does holding vs selling into these plans?

Do you buy a single family home, invest in a syndication on something bigger or find additional money to invest in a small to medium multifamily unit?

So I'm trying to figure out a happy medium which is increase rents and lower expenses if possible. 

We currently live in Metairie, which is a suburb in New Orleans, and are currently looking to put an offer on a duplex that is listed at $175,000 in a medium demand area.

You can pretty easily find $200 per month with routine maintenance and expenses in an older property, but one roof replacement on a big old rambling up/down duplex built 100 years ago will *crush* cashflow for many months or even years in some cases or an upstairs porch rebuild or any combination of medium priced capital expenses in a short period of time.

Texas  = high property tax  foundations and storms.FLA = medium prop tax  HIGH insurance.. check that. 

It shows a graph of low, medium and high prices.

I read that you need to have certain window dimensions in basements and a lot about specific height and width.

Anyone have recommendations of companies that can handle small\medium sized multi-family properties?

I honestly prefer 1 or 2 bedrooms over 3 beds, because you are very likely dealing with a medium size family in a 3 bed apt, which can add substantial cost in water use and repairs.