Buy the single family first and see if owner will wait six months for the 9 unit. 

They're not required for single-member LLCs, but it is best practice.

I will look at a few factors, rent for area, total mortgage payment with property taxes( which can be crazy in Detroit), investment in neighborhood, I like looking into places where they are building homes and apartments that attract young professionals or families , and also looking at potential to make a single family home into a duplex or something can add an adu or transform a basement to a studio apartment!

Quote from @Michael Moreno: Hi everyone,I own a 3-bedroom, 2-bath single-family residence that I purchased in September 2023.

Lawn Care: Regular upkeep, normally the tenant's job on single family residences stated in the lease.7.

I just put down an earnest deposit on a single-family home in the 63134 ZIP code.

If you live in the illegal apartment, and it's separate, then what you've done is use an R-1 (single family home) zoning as an R-2 (duplex), and since that wouldn't be legal, the tenant may be able to successfully sue you for renting an illegal unit - even if you are in the illegal apartment - just because it's not legal to have 2 separate apartments on that property.I'm wondering if you could somehow rent it as a roommate situation, though, and get around that.  

Although I would like my first investment to be a single family home.

—can also be acquired on an all-cash basis, but your initial outlay will be a lot higher, and leasing cycles will be longer and more complex than single-family.

., "I will buy at least one single-family home, duplex, triplex, or fourplex before the end of 2019") and then do it.