As well as coffee shops like Bottoms Up Coffee are moving in and small microbreweries like brew dog and Land Grant.

Those with little to no experience should have even larger amounts of reserves in place before they purchase real estate. 

A mortgage lender can help determine if refinancing or tapping into equity might allow you to acquire additional properties.Consider a 1031 Exchange: If you're open to selling a current property, a 1031 exchange can defer capital gains taxes while enabling you to upgrade to a larger or more profitable asset.

I’m particularly interested in collaborating with like-minded investors and exploring partnerships for larger acquisitions.Looking forward to learning from this community and connecting with others passionate about multifamily investing.Excited to learn and connect with you all!

@Matthew Posteraro I wouldn't necessarily say that it is a way to make them more hands-off by scaling up to larger properties.

I think the area is short on larger (4-5 Bedroom) homes that can really accomodate a whole family.  

Then your best bet are probably community banks which have more flexibility (albeit worse terms) than larger banks and also worth looking into are DSCR lenders.

Don, is there more insight into what happened with the 2 dogs vs the 1 star? 

Renting could allow you to focus on paying down debt and saving for a larger down payment, while buying now could help you start building equity or even generate passive income through house hacking.

The PMS around here are pretty terrible, I've worked with a lot of the larger ones in Cleveland and I think they just take on more properties than they can effectively handle and don't hire enough additional employees to make it work.