It depends on where you want to live, income, personality, and other factors.You could buy a large home and rent out the individual rooms to cover expenses, but this comes with problems.

The best thing you can do is buy.

Do you want to be solving tenant issues, buying properties, problems at work, etc. 

I would think the best way to get deals is buying the note from the bank.

Hello everyone,My business partner and I are considering buying in Niagara Falls as a short term rental investment and we'd love to speak to someone there running a vacation rental.

This means that someone who makes $43,000/year would now eligible to buy this room condo, and have access to a vehicle through which to build equity in an asset as an alternative to paying rent. 

Buy in an area you want to live and renting to the people you want to rent to.

Myself and a friend are looking to get into investing in buying hold single-family homes.

We have also toyed w/the idea of buying/moving into fixeriuppers and selling every 2 years. 

Ignore seller finance for a second...Can you buy a house, put 20% down...yes.