My husband and I were out looking at investment properties all morning, as we are in the identification phase of a 1031. 

Airbnb comes out looking pretty bad as they only responded to help the host with media pressure.  

Personally, I started out looking for deals for other investors by bird-dogging and wholesaling.

I do not believe you have the proper out look on investing to be successful.

We now mostly stay away from 1 BR units.I am not sure your market will be similar to my market in how fast 1 BR units turnover but, without evidence to the contrary, I would go in with the mindset that the 1 BR will turnover at least twice as fast as the 3 BR units.I suspect, even though the rent to cost ratio is better in the 6 unit RE, the duplex will have the better actual cash flow and be less work (assuming they are in comparable areas: similar expected appreciation, similar employment outlooks, similar class, similar schools, similar crime rates, etc.).Good luck.

Other than that the outlook is not as good as other parts of the country.

Flooding will continue to be the elephant in the room ( city) I think for the foreseeable future all over the city, but if your existing home did NOT flood during Harvey, that really should give some confidence in that properties long term out look, IMO.  

That takes some serious discipline and a long term outlook.

I also add calendar events and sync with outlook.

., We chose Atlanta among a host of other cities based on quantiative factors such as population growth, past appreciation, and affordability (price-to-income ratio and sales-to-rent ratio), as well as qualitative factors such as whether the state is landlord-friendly, long-term economic outlook and climateHow did you find this deal and how did you negotiate it?