Here is the backstory: I started buying single-family homes in Milwaukee 15 years ago and pretty soon migrated from C into B neighborhoods ("A" would be 500k plus here) and some of my friends invest in larger MF so I thought that's the next step for me as well and started shopping for a commercial deal maybe about 50 units.The issue is that I did not want to go into the affordable housing space and assets in the quality I liked were so insanely high priced that I would have needed 40% down to meet DSCR guidelines - not to mention rehab cost to bring it up to our standards.

So, I had a local shop make her several home decor items, and one of them was a nice mug that read, "Mike can fix that".

@Hunter Harmon you will run into this in Socal, I know I did when I was shopping for my house hack.

Hey Molly, there's no single one-stop shop in finding off market deals. 

Refi’ing wasn’t my intention initially tbh, but I haven’t had my current primary mortgage that long (refi’d with rocket mortgage last July), so I’m not opposed if the numbers work out.I’m still shopping around, though.

If you're ever in town, I’d love to meet for coffee.

Reach out to 50 investors in your area and ask to have lunch, coffee etc.

This could get you 6-8 units if you shop patiently which is a great starting point.Please do not send any money off to companies that advertise real estate "syndications" online.

Don't forget to shop around!

While shopping for a small multi-family building (3 or 4 units), I would like to get an inspection of the building to get an estimate of repair costs if any problems are found (foundation, roof, electrical, plumbing, heating).