I'm from Leesburg, and I can tell you—multi-family is a solid choice (piggybacking the previous comments which I agree 💯), especially with that live-in/rent-out, house hack strategy.

House hacking is the BEST way to get started in real estate investing!

If the house was built in the 50's or earlier than you probably have cast iron pipes.

A close friend of the family ,who was married, and had a house together got divorced and in between that time, she did a QC and removed her name from the deed.

Jeremy, from Maine #207

I never looked at apartments, but the houses I looked at were all pretty old (80+ years old) and I had some worries about deferred maintenance too. 

A couple that come to mind in addition to the ones @Drew Sygit mentioned:Dirty House Buyers (Ann Arbor/Ypsi area - look for their FB group - 1st Tuesday of the month)Ann Arbor (AAREIC) has a meeting every other Thursday morning at Union RecThanks,Marcia

Great location on main hwy. 

They either list owner-occuiped houses for sale or know they can show a normal buyer 5-10 houses for a sale.- It's not profitable for them to search for under-market priced houses, figure out repairs needed or what other problem is pushing the price down and do even more for a newbie investor that has analysis-paralysis and may never buy anything.Some questions you'll want to share the answers to with any agent you choose:1) Are you paying cash or getting a mortgage?

High demand for Section 8 housing.