Currently, I own Luxury Autowerks, an auto shop in Denver, and I personally self-manage the ski-in/ski-out short-term rental in Keystone, CO while also helping to diversify and expand my families real estate portfolio.My long-term goal is to own apartment buildings (100+ Doors), and I’m taking my first steps into acquiring our first small multifamily property.

You must have known the property was in arrears, so it becomes your duty to be in contact with the bank through the process.

I've created a free interactive map for the upcoming Philadelphia tax sales auction, where you can easily see the location of each property along with its auction ID.

Signing the buyers brokers agreement is only needed when you identify a property

List your property on corporate rental sites like Blueground, Zeus Living, and Furnished Finder to attract high-income tenants. 

Some require you to live in the property a year before renting. 

Then I would do a low risk flip ( rehab less than a few weeks) for hopefully a 10-15% profit, repeat until I have a nice down payment and am sure that I would be able to qualify for a refinance, then buy a buy and hold then continue flipping until I get to the next buy and hold - in theory, the time between each property should decrease as I should be getting capital from the buy + hold as well as I would already have my reserves built up.

DSCR loans are used to finance the property once you have tenants in the units.

Instead of a co-host can you just get a property manager that specializes in it?

If you consistently analyze properties, recognizing a good deal will be much easier when it shows up.