Most of the investors are buy and hold people and you can get good info.I agree regular agents do not know much about investing, so I suggest to work with a realtor/ investor agents.Multi units around the colleges are mostly expensive these days in Baltimore City, actually multi units are over priced all over the Baltimore City these days, so just be carefult not to pay too much.Good Luck!!!

Five years ago 100K per unit was expensive and we blew right through that, now it's par for the course or even a little cheap in nicer areas.As far as networking groups, the RI Real Estate Investors Group is the only regular one I know of in RI and there's also Black Diamond REI in southern Mass you may want to check out as well.

I turn deals down regularly.

All of my regular bills have the property address on them and for repairs or store receipts, I write the address on the top and file it with the other items for that property. 

Because of this it's going to be hard to find a business who does this as it's just not a sustainable business model to do all of that for someone as a regular product offering.

They have regular meetings with very educational topics. 

Drive-bys are done on a fairly regular basis, every few months at least. 

None of the regular sites (zillow, trulia or redfin) even know about this place as they can't find it.PM me for the address.I understand the possibilities of AirBNB, subject-to deals, etc as theory, so I'm not looking for theoretical solutions. 

Typically a syndicator cannot structure  a deal like they could with a regular accredited investor that is not a 1031.I have not done a DST.

After repairs ($40-75K) you might not get much higher rent since it's long term Tenants.If you think it's a good deal, make it yourself and forfeit your commission - just negotiate the price down like it would be for the regular buyersGood luck!