A 4-plex would be ideal and you could play around with doing 1 long-term, 1 mid-term, and 1 short-term, plus you, if it works on your area to upgrade your income.

Zillow is not ideal because this is a monthly furnished rental - which Zillow doesn't have a specific platform for - but that's what has worked for me up to now. 

He is a direct lender, not middleman broker fees. 

Ideally, we'd like to acquire one or two duplexes that meet the 1% rule and provide us with $1,000–$2,000 USD per month after property management fees and other expenses.

But as of the last 6 or so months I seem to be losing direction.

To help support that avatar, try and have on-site parking and ideally a place where a large work truck can be parked without issue (think fully decked out F-350). 

Start with Reonomy or Costar to identify all the 100+ units in your target market (on and off market) and then see if you can get into direct contact with some owners.

Some carriers require limited water damage coverage depending on the age of the property and age of utilities.I would recommend at least 25% (ideally more) when possible and if you're limited to 10% you should make sure you cannot purchase another policy for a similar price.

Over rehab de property and it wasn't the ideally neither

My property holding LLC would ideally own the land/houses and manage the rentals once completed.When they are complete, I will have about $375K in each build and they should appraise around $675k each.