Live in the multi-family for a year, then move back into your own home and rent out the unit.If if not ideal, it's worth the hassle. 

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To answer the first big question in your post — single family vs multi-family — I am firmly in the multi-family camp.

To OP, it's not as scary as you think it is, this will be your first home purchase, you can purchase a multi family or SFR and house hack.

Anything single family will require very creative strategies in order to generate cashflow. 

The two common ways to get rents up is 1) to move qualified family into the unit for a year 2) perform and extensive rehab such that tenant occupancy is not possible. 

Hey bigger pockets family, I'm facing a dilemma that consists of me choosing whether or not to buy a tiny home and put it on my current home's property, creating an ADU to rent out or to save that money that I would put into the tiny home and save for my next purchase.

I only have experience with regular single-family homes as STRs.

Investment Info:Large multi-family (5+ units) commercial investment investment.

That's probably sound advice for single family rentals or flips.