So imagine if your mortgage payment was 1/2 how much more confident you’d be.

The Flip Secret gave me the confidence and motivation to go.

Act with confidence/authority, do the paperwork, and get on with it.  

If they agree then I’ll feel much more confident about the whole thing.

@Amber DouglasIf you are confident in renting the 6 unit and have funds to carry you through the rehab and lease up then it all comes down to the numbers.

Make sure you ae confident with what you are doing and the time that it will take away from whatever else you have going on.Don't worry too much about cash flow in the beginning especially when you are working with limited funds. 

I somehow hove more confidence in the 20 year potential of my SFH than the multi family/duplex/triplex layout of the potential portfolio.

We need the personal attention at this point until we gain experience and confidence.

I threw myself into education so deep that I'm fairly confident that there isn't a book, course, tape set, cd set, made from the time ....How to make friends and influence people,(a book on tape, which is mandatory reading if your serious about this business),  all the way to every guru's advertised course  up until the year 2000.....

Assuming I had the experience, I would only buy a place with structural issues if I had 1) an experienced and trusted structural engineer telling me a clear, and verifiable explanation of the cause(s) of the problem and a viable and affordable solution, 2) trusted and experienced tradespeople who would be implementing the solution (carpenter, mason, etc.) confirming with me that they could fix the issue (with 90% or higher confidence that the issue could be resolved within budget), and 3) confirmation from city inspectors that the issue (and an inability to fix the issue) would not result in condemnation/revocation of occupancy permits. ...and even then, I'd only proceed if I had the cash reserves to ride out a major series of unexpected problems (e.g.; time overruns, budget overruns, unexpected revocation of occupancy permits from the city, etc.)