As much as I want to house hack in a four-plex, it would not make sense for us because it does not align with our deepest needs and desires.I definitely see the benefits of house hacking first, I was just curious what your thoughts were on skipping this step so I don't get caught up in this space and never end up moving on to what really interests me.

Skip trace ALL family members you can find and just start dialing. 

I do know you can apply for a bed and breakfast permit but it costs $1k for filing fee and 3k for approval screening process...and even after all that, no guarantee of approval.

There are people at a breakfast Meetup in Akron, a guy at the Akron REIA who advertises there and a commercial broker in the CLE area.

Drive every single street and get the vacant property addresses and skip trace the owner and see if they want to sale. 

Skip trace the llc and now you have your vetted cash buyers list.

There are a lot of things we are skipping for the sake of conversation like property taxes etc but yeah if you can be all in at 10k and get 300$ a month, I'd do that every day of the week. 

We plan to begin our investing in Cleveland, but are open to exploring elsewhere.About 6 months ago, my father, brother and I were having breakfast and I started kicking around the idea of splitting a vacation home. 

Skip trace the owner to determine if the person who was living there and who, you suspect, has passed away, is in fact the owner.

and here Congrats on Skipping the SFR Phase and Going Straight To Multi's.