Investment Info:Small multi-family (2-4 units) buy & hold investment in Duck Creek Village.

@Colin Ford recommend getting experience with your RI duplex before going OOS.You should DIY manage the unit next door, so you LEARN about property management, the goog, the bad and the ugly.Then you'll be so much better prepared to invest OOS!

I'm not in that market so I can't speak specifically to it, but to me the deciding factor would be what the surrounding units and area has. 

I don't rent furnished and others may be able to point out where this is flawed, but I would consider renting the furniture SEPARATE of the unit because that may allow you to collect a deposit on the furniture.

So, landlords of exempt units don't even have to be concerned at all.   

Sometimes an $800k 4-unit could be a better return than a $300k 2-unit...or visa versa. 

Eventually the park gets heavier and heavier with POH units.  

On the plus side the rare times a Section 8 tenant moves the unit is in rent ready condition because it hasn't been ignored as occupied for 6-10 years.

I recently added a half bathroom to existing footage in a unit that is valued over $1k/ft that the comps showed the half bathroom added ~$50k of value.- not sure of your home market but i assume you are choosing ohio for its lower cost.  

I think a multi family (2-4) units would again probably be the right type.