For starters it can be more difficult to find comps as there are often less multi fam trading than SFR of the same size and count.

I have some great starter projects!  

I am new to Bigger Pockets and to real estate and would love to get some good information for starters or to just discuss.

To be fair this GC has his estate home next to my project and he did not want to see starter homes going in. we build semi custom highest price in town .. so there was quality of project that also interested him.. this would be a rare event out in the market..

Start with Strategy by @Dave Meyer and Set for Life by @Scott Trench are great starter books before you get into others.

For starters, the prospect passes our 3.5x income requirement, has a 700+ credit score but a few things that I seem to have trouble with is the management company that was on the application, I wasn't able to find any viable information through regular web searches, but through the Business public record I found an LLC to this management company which I found was created 5 months ago. 

I would say you definitely need to add a vacancy cost I would also look more seriously at repairs/ capital expenditures for starters.

I'm looking to invest in the community through single family starter homes.

Affordable/starter homes in the DFW area tend to appreciate much better than higher end homes.

So, their attorney gets back to them with the new that (1) their dream of a “contingency” fee lawsuit is a non starter (2) that the process is going to be long, drawn out, and (3) that a $15,000 retainer would be required.