Another single family house had two front doors and they assumed it was 2 units, it was not. 

There are DSCR lenders will allow only a single 20 or 25% owner of an LLC to sign a Personal Guarantee (other owners are not on the loan, or liable for the loan).

I do not want to give a single OTA a competitive advantage by choosing to have my STR listings on a single OTA.  

if its a single family you'd get an appraisal called 1004 as is + arv . if its a 2 to 4 unit you'd get a 1025 as is + arv appraisal .

As of right now, yes just focusing on Single family fix and flips.  

Real estate investing has been a passion of mine for time with my mother also having invested early on where I likely have gotten the love and desire to follow similar foot steps.I have taken last 6 months to educate myself and currently own a single family home as primary residence and would like to expand to multi family properties (2-4 units) for additional stream of income, not to mention potential tax benefits for long-term investing.Based on current living situation, I have a fair amount of equity established in my primary residency along with having enough cash to either pay off house completely or use towards investing in a multi family property.Given that I'm the sole source of income for our household with my wife being the home maker for our two kids under 2, trying to weigh out risks with getting started now or perhaps waiting. 

the issue is the $200K investment does not add any where close to $200K of value in most single family zoned areas. 

., "I will buy at least one single-family home, duplex, triplex, or fourplex before the end of 2019") and then do it.

My wife and I have owned a single family rental house in Indianapolis for 1 year and are trying to decide between an LLC versus a personal umbrella policy.

I currently have a duplex in Milwaukee and am living in a single family home that I plan to turn into a SFH rental.