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

Ashcroft Capital and Joe Fairless are some of the leaders in the multi family syndication space. 

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.

Insurance for 1-4 families is reasonable.

You want to look at paragraph 12 of the Texas purchase contract, called the 'One to Four Family Residential Contract'.

Quote from @Tyler Garza: Deal :Duplex Home2 beds / unit2 baths / unit3,000 sqftAsking 300k60k downEst rent/yr - 31,2005% Vacancy20% Op ExpenseMortgage 240k assuming 7%Results: CF - 6,600Cocr - 11%Cap - 8%Looking at this for a buy and hold and trying to determine if I am analyzing this right For the best rates, to get near the 7% on a 2-4 family you are going to need to put down 25% instead of 20%. 

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.

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

Investment Info:Single-family residence buy & hold investment.