Call backs are on the Home Warranty company.I got one for our house because I did not want to be poking around the washing machine!

https://www.biggerpockets.com/blogs/5885/50083-building-a-marketing-machine-part-4d-direct-mail

Start with the 4 plex.. live in it legally.. .refi it .. buy another FHA 4 plex live in it legally refi .Do this 4 times over 6 years and by the time he is 30 he will own 16 doors using his 4 mortgage slots  and  in the uber stable NW market and probably have some appreciation and huge tax bene's do this while your young and can make it work

So it would depend on your market: are there more people who make 120k a year who don't want to (or can't) buy a house or people who make $9/hr who can't buy a house.Another aspect is the ability to add value to an apartment complex from raising rent, adding coin-op laundry (debatable on the profitability), rental storage, soda/vending machines not to mention the natural appreciation.

@Scott Bell he is most likely referring to Deal Machine.

We currently own 1 x 4plex in  Colorado Springs that we bought with FHA loan in 2012 and  house hacked that is a cash flow machine and has appreciated significantly.

Get an app like deal machine, that will allow you to drive for dollars and record addresses.

Just as if you were using Deal Machine in a car and it would track your routes as you drive.

Colby,thank you so much for your honest feedback, I appreciate it a lot. what are your thoughts on the Deal machine to get leads driving 4 dollars, I was thinking of starting that way until I am able to have a decent marketing budget? 

Am I better off just maxing out my conventional slots before I go the alternate route?