Of course we would look to purchase further houses using this method, each time combining 5 deposits/leveraging other properties to put a larger dent in the loan that would be possible if I was investing by myself. 

It seems if you build it out into a proper modern small set of apartments, you can avoid any big maintenance issues for a long time, as well as making something highly desirable/and therefore priced accordingly. 

I've been using Zillow in combination with those.  

If you are not there, you will definitely need a money partner, so your combined networth would exceed the loan amount.

Using a combination of zillow and the county website to see the price a property sold for can give you a good general idea.  

The great majority of our community owner clients are using related finance companies as a tool to buy low occupancy communities and fill and modernize them thus making major changes in the values of the communities they acquire.I wonder how he intends to do it? 

If anyone is wondering why I have to borrow the full $500k it is because we were underinsured due to a combination of my lack of experience with commercial property and our insurance broker not properly advising us on what the policy amount should be.

I'm an investor looking to expand my investment portfolio in the Greater Sacramento multi-unit  market. (  2-4 units) What areas have you found to have the best combination of generating income , safe neighborhoods and prospective upside.  

(*But use it wisely) I recently took out a HELOC on my primary to get an investment property in combination with the BRRRR strategy.

LA has the highest SFR total returns of any city in the nation CASH FLOW + EQUITY combined since 2000.