Im also interested in starting to invest in housing whether that be flipping, BRRR, etcMy wife, 54, is newly positioned social worker and climbing to what she feels is her max with clients.

I never looked at apartments, but the houses I looked at were all pretty old (80+ years old) and I had some worries about deferred maintenance too. 

Took me 2 years to completely gut and re do everything in the house.

In addition to STR'ing the main house, he is building 2 more units (ADUs) on the back side of the property.

House hacking is the BEST way to get started in real estate investing!

from a laptop or mobile phone on one of my SFR's (internet must be hooked up, but most tenants do it anyway and like to be able to monitor the outside of the house remotely, even if there's nothing going on.)

A couple that come to mind in addition to the ones @Drew Sygit mentioned:Dirty House Buyers (Ann Arbor/Ypsi area - look for their FB group - 1st Tuesday of the month)Ann Arbor (AAREIC) has a meeting every other Thursday morning at Union RecThanks,Marcia

I'm from Leesburg, and I can tell you—multi-family is a solid choice (piggybacking the previous comments which I agree 💯), especially with that live-in/rent-out, house hack strategy.

If the house was built in the 50's or earlier than you probably have cast iron pipes.

A close friend of the family ,who was married, and had a house together got divorced and in between that time, she did a QC and removed her name from the deed.