Curious if Table Rock area or closer to Silver Dollar City would be a better location? 

The reason being: we’d love to live long term in New England but we’re very discouraged by the housing market up here (a lot of expensive run down properties and seems like a lot of red tape) 

After diving into LTR in SFHs for the last few years, we are interested in purchasing a home (preferably lakefront or lakeview) with dock access on Table Rock Lake. 

I dont have the full purchase price of this 4plex to invest though, so I would have to finance half to 2/3 which seems like a stumbling block. i can still make the numbers work, but at a much lesser monthly profit i suppose. i also dont have the w2 income to support 2 mortgages (counting the one i have on my house), so i assume any bank would have to count the existing leases towards my income which i understand is possibleI guess I was wondering about advice, or red flags, anything, on this specific deal.

If the investor uses financing, they'd be in the red.

I completely agree and have conveyed this to the seller and he didn’t tell me to kick rocks so there maybe some negotiation capability. 2.

Basically, if their story makes sense and doesn't raise any red flags, I'd gladly consider them.  

I frankly don't know the politics in balt city is it blue or red or something in between..

. 🔨 Background: In my SFR3 days, I steered acquisitions in Little Rock, AR, tallying over 100 successful acquisitions, rehabs turned rentals during my tenure.

I immediately saw a red flag because I knew the lending protocol.