I've been looking at small multifamily  (3-4 units) online for a while now with the intention of house hacking,  I've read as much of the free educational materials I can.  I've even ran the numbers on some deals and ...

I did a lot of the work myself, and probably bit off more than I should have chewed :) 

I've been poking around on here off and on for awhile, not too seriously, but have decided it's time to dig in and take advantage of this cool resource on BP.4 years ago my wife and I bit off way more than we could chew with our first "handyman special" home, a 1940s 1400 sqft 3br 2ba on 3.5 acres with decades of deferred maintenance and shoddy DIY.  

While I plan to focus on buy and hold, I picture a somewhat perfect scenario for me would be to find distressed homes the way a wholesaler would find them, fix them the way a flipper would fix them and then rent them out the way a buy and hold investor would rent them out.Am I trying to bite more than I can chew?

An agent will chew up your profits.

Dog chew toy or cat scratching post.

They are still in that chew everything, not quite sure where to use the bathroom at phase.

The Agent did not apologize and simply said that he chewed out the seller's agent, whom I do not blame not a bit.

I am concerned there could be rats in the walls etc and there could be chewed wires or other damage that isn't visible. 

But if you decide to go with it I recommend: No dogs less than one year old (chewing and bladder control problems), $500 -750 pet deposit, $25-40 per month pet rent and depending on the breed a pet bite rider in their renter's policy.