I am looking for a 4-plex ideally (my second property) and would benefit from hearing more from your experiences.

Could you convert just the garages in to a massive “owner’s suite” convert e small building into a garage or workshop and create the ideal 4 unit for an owner occupant?

Now you can ideally monetize it's sell price with the added premiums of turn-key and seller financing, and as completed raising the sale price significantly creating sizable profit.

What you wrote would be ideal scenario.

Keep it local, ideally within 20min!

 I suggest setting clear goals and outlining your desires and requirements for your ideal investment properties.

Tough neighborhoods still, but plenty of fixer uppers and low cost plots make it ideal for scrappy individual investors looking to get started on the cheap.

If your goal is to keep acquiring investment properties, going the DSCR route for future purchases would be ideal, as they do not report on credit(with me, the lender of course). 

If it's standard for the landlord to pay, also no problem although not ideal.

I'm looking to develop contractor garages, but ideally those would be slab on grade, so I couldn't do that everywhere without a lot of site costs.I'm new to this space, and looking to also get an idea of developing over fill and what that process looks like.