@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.

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.) 

Quick way to be very confident in your offering 

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Thank you everyone for your beautiful, helpful advice . feeling more confident,  I discussed this with her and she agreed to sign the lease.

@Zeliang Zheng I don’t know how many units you are looking to get into but I’ve got an 8 unit building and a 5 unit building that have given me plenty of confidence to go larger when I find the funding.