It's a low-risk way of gaining A TON of education in real estate investing and developing skills that transpose to other segments (wholesaling, buy & hold, flipping, etc).

https://www.airbnb.com/newAirbnb rolled out several new programs today that segment the millions of listings currently on their platform.

You can even segment these markets more and more and aim for a niche (be they college students in a campus town or retirees in a vacation town).Best of luck!

To each his own, but in general, if youre in it to win it, I'd say most of your deals at first have to be in the multifamily homes unless you find killer deals that are even better in the SFH segment in your area.

There are some stipulations and rules surrounding this, so correspond with your accountant on the matter (segmenting the HELOC for rental property purposes only, etc.) .

Sometimes even the resi focused groups have concentrated commercial segments. 

Plus, there's a niche to be filled by offering the smaller homes - boyfriend/girlfriend, recently engaged, temporary out of town workers, and just plain single people.The 2/1s tend to have more turn over than a 3/2, but it's a niche that many investors overlook, and still a good segment of the housing market.If the numbers work on a 2/1, I would continue your due diligence and proceed if everything makes sense.

The other market segment they could be gearing towards is corporate housing for people relocating to the area. 

I am planing to do short term deals to start such as wholesaling, rehabs and fix and flips, but if I venture into land-lording, I will probably try to target this segment of the market  This is just part of my business plan, but at some point I can foresee some value to adding it to my arsenal.   

I added 6 properties to my portfolio in metro Denver in the past year, I still like this market a lot for the right segment of properties.