If possible, ask fellow investors in your area for referrals to specific lenders they’ve had good experiences with.

Websites like Zillow and Redfin can help you find these, and a local realtor can provide valuable insights on the market.Don’t hesitate to ask the community for advice on specific properties!

-when figuring rules of thumb regarding payroll cost per employee/position or things like repairs and maintenance cost, contract services, etc. per door in a specific market do yall suggest contacting a property manager to find out these numbers or actually using google or job listings etc. i thought about using chat GPT as well. any thoughts on this?

As mentioned, I would definitely seek out the advice of experts in those specific markets depending on where you decide to go. 

For example, bank accounts we control and specific investor capital accounts are all tracked in this same software.For our investor reports, each month we download spreadsheets, write a narrative for the month's performance and then export it all to a PDF.

I am looking to get into investing specifically house hacking and am searching for a small multi fam (duplex, tri, or quad) and haven't found the one yet.

Would love to talk more about what it is specifically you are looking for because 50k is normally the minimum I recommend so you could definitely make something work.

Not specific to OP but I constantly observe the pressure investors face to buy real estate.

Real estate isn’t just numbers on paper; it’s about people and their preferences, which can be hyper-local.Your insights reinforce the importance of disciplined investing and doing the homework to understand your specific market nuances.

@Nicholas Dillon do you have a more specific buy box?