I did 59 transactions. kept 13 doors to myself.

If the Multi-Fam does not have individual utility-meters for all units, then you have to figure out what to do or it can potentially eat away at your cash flow.  99% of Single Family homes do not have this problem.These are just a few pros and cons. 

Curious on how you were able to get the  OK on a "special permit;" mine is a also detached garage, except the neighbor next door seems to not want this property to be run as anything more than a single family property and have made it known.

The door opens wide open for tax strategy then.Good luck!

Sometimes if you are renting the unit and it is not insulated properly, then you hear footsteps and conversations from next-door units, so tenants complain a lot, but there is not much you can do.Also, one time the unit above mine leaked water into my unit, and the HOA said I needed to talk to people living above mine to fix the issue and they didn't have the fund to fix the bathtub from leaking into mine, so I had to pay for the repairs.Sometimes working with HOA and is painful, but other times is easy if the unit does not have problems

I have a duplex where I rent out the garage and in my lease I state:“Tenant understands that Landlord doesnot provide any security alarm system or other security for the Premises.

I know in the RE sales world when I started I would do 1000 door hangers and get maybe 5 to 10 responses and that boiled down to one sale.. cant really comment on the mortgage side since we were not brokers we were the actual money and my business came to me referrals from other folks in the business. 

Give them both a poop scoop for early christmas gift.Let neighbor know the problem is out of control and an unleashed dog is also.Let tenant know if the dog is in the front yard she will have one foot out the door. 

In Valencia we have multiple flips that we are now finishing (a building and a garage that we are transforming into apartments).

In fact, across the board, out of town investors are buying at *negative returns* which is making it absolutely impossible for savvy, educated investors to even get their foots in the door.