A good video that was helpful to me starting out is: How to Analyze a Real Estate Market in 60 Minutes - Know More than a Local Expert - Neal Bawa… (BP frowns on link posting… so copy-paste in google, it should be 57 min long).For some other let’s say high level book on the “start-to-finish” for MF investing, helpful to me are:Wheelbarrow Profits by Jake and GinoMultifamily Millions by David LindahlEmerging Real Estate Markets by David LindahlCreative Cash by Bill Ham (helpful for ‘seller financing’ options)Once you get through the “philosophy” of these, some more “meat and potatoes” digging into the actual numbers and case studies:The Complete Guide to Buying and Selling Apartment Buildings by Steve BergesThe Complete Guide to Real Estate Finance for Investment Properties by Steve BergesYouTube has some good underwriting resources:Break Into CRE with Justin KivelThe Multifamily Show with James Eng at Old CapitalAdventures in CRE with Spencer BurtonBruce KirschLocal meetups… you’ll learn a lot from other investors in your market… an active local REIA is UCREIA (Upstate Carolina Real Estate Investors Association) they have a monthly main meeting and then various sub-groups that meet monthly as well.Ben Jones and Ivan Jenkins run Multifamily Investor Nation – Greenville, SC sub-group, they do a hybrid with in person and virtual together.

I'm not in your area but still happy to connect virtually.

Always happy to sync virtually as well.

:P ) is that, of virtually all of the possible profit points of real estate, it is the one with virtually no barrier to entry and no reasonable recourse for the parties involved, and the opportunity for significant financial loss.

Lenders are making virtually all of their money on the front-loaded fees they collect (points, loan origination, other charges), not on the interest you are paying.

Then, when the tenant destroys your property, you have virtually no recourse.As to the concept of "guaranteed" rent I'm rolling on the floor.

Look for meetups in your area (virtual) on Meetup.com or FB Groups, attend free webinars, start reading as much as possible on any and all topics related to investing and real estate.

Virtually no operators own the 1,000s of units and $ millions outright, so it is not dishonest or misleading because it is basically an industry standard metric.What is misleading and not as honest is when an operator includes their LP investments mixed with their GP investments in their totals. 

Right now, there is virtually nothing out there listed, and I contend there is little MF opportunity worth pursuing at the moment. 

Have a representative (boots on the ground ) If you are working virtually.