The core A/B 4 units have not had as crazy of price swings and although don't look as sexy a COC they perform well in real life. 

I have allowed a teen to join one house, father is deceased, mother addict, my renters are the aunt and uncle related to the deceased brother. 

I was doing contractor work since my early teens as a helper and it afforded me the opportunity to learn many valuable lessons on someone elses dime. 

I am homeschooling 4 teens (3 with special needs) so time is much more limited these days.My other biggest obstacle is not feeling confident in the way forward....at 47 years old, potentially very limited access to traditional financing, a strong need to build shorter-term cash-flow for retirement and longer-term generational wealth...not sure if multi-family should be my focus? 

boys or girls, toddlers or teens, scary or imaginative.

Go passive, get 10% CoC and high teens on sale of value add approaches with proven syndicate operators and go do what you do best.

Mansions , luxury cars and private jets or yachts .That’s the sexy side .But the real value is freedom and time .

In California, plan to hunker down for a long while.It's not legal and I would never suggest it, but wouldn't it be fun to hire a dozen homeless people or rowdy teens to squat in the property and give these sellers a taste of their own medicine?

www.biggerpockets.com/teen.

Yes, it doesn't sound sexy!