Unless you can get a house with a triplex in the backyard (I just saw one pop up in central for Miami for about $850k). 

It is all in or all out kind of thing especially on larger commercial.Anything sub 1.5 million and below is more mom and pop small town type stuff.

There's deals that pop up here & there but for the most part I think it is over priced around here.You mentioned the seller has had it on & off the market several times so that must be for a reason.

.- you can google hard money lender and they will pop up if you want to go that way.There are tons of others, there are a lot of resources on the site and books that go into depth like the ultimate guide BP puts out.Good luck!!

I saw a few interesting listings pop up, but the inventory for small multifamily (at least in my experience currently) has been moving really fast for our investors.

I'm telling you, that one change added 5-10% to the property because it pops now and has tons of charm. 

Select Tertiary markets look better .If your location agnostic I agree with the poster who recommended the Southeast but dont get into a market that has already popped like charlotte, Nashville , or Charleston .

If I see anything pop up in this area I’ll let you know!

Finding Mom & Pop landlords with listings on Craigslist seems to be another good way to go.I have created data scrapers before for auction listings and sites with atypical listings.

Try to investigate and perhaps popping sound from loose floors at night(screw subfloor not use nails).