Did you know that you can acquire your a primary residence from up to 1-4 units for as low as 5% with conventional.

The appraised value seems low and I am trying to understand the best strategy to challenge this value and the cost / benefit of going through the condemnation process. 

Ordinarily non recourse financing is reserved for larger stabilized assets that are low levered.

Plain and simple the reason we were able to acquire the properties we have over the years is because we leverage low money down loans.  

I grew up a Carpenter, so being able to rent a unit and fix the other seems like a low risk option for getting started. 

With such low rental yields, the return on investment (ROI) and cash-on-cash (CoC) return are negative when factoring in mortgage payments only, not including any other factors.In this market, it seems almost impossible to make a profit using traditional rental property investing strategies.

Bought a 5 plex in 2022 insurance was $1500/year (which was low). 

Very low probability you will get anything back.

My goal is to spread my funds across multiple investments to grow my portfolio while keeping my down payments as low as possible.

I buy where people want to live, not where property is cheap due to low demand.