The duplex has been sitting for 90 days and is 3 times more than All single family Homes with the 3 beds and 3 baths in the neighborhood.

I recently had an offer accepted for my first multi-family property!

I know I will never get this money back when I sell but at the time I thought this was my forever (or at least 20 year home) and I wanted to make it cozy and beautiful (all my family are interior designers so naturally this was my path lol).

As far as commercial goes, we've been seeing a lot of activity in the multi-family and self-storage space.

Seconding what @Max Wilhite said, Multi-Family is a great way to get started.

We built a single family home version of a 2 bed 1 bath with surface parking at cost with no profit all in with land for 175k in newark ohio, a suburb of columbus ohio. when we push that to 3 units and closer to the city for our build to rent model the numbers go way better. a 30k slab for a single family home is 30k, a 30k slab for a triplex is 10k a door. we designed a 2 bed 1 bath design at 668 sq ft and it's very good layout even I would live there, but I would never build anything that small again. there's no economies of scale. you need density and shared lines, resources, shared roof shared slab, shared windows, etc the cost goes way down.

Investment Info:Small multi-family (2-4 units) buy & hold investment.

I'm still getting up to speed with things, so I can't say quite yet exactly what type of real estate investing I'd like to pursue, but from what I know so far I'm leaning toward long-term single family rentals in the Colorado Springs area.

@Robert D.Sounds like you need to speak with a family law attorney about separate versus community property rules, as well as possible creation of a pre-nuptial or post-nuptial type agreement. 

There are four single family dwellings in this property.