Hello Justin,  I want to start with multi-family buildings with 5-9 units max.

After years of focusing on my career and building financial stability, I’m ready to dive into real estate investing and start creating passive income and long-term wealth.My short-term goal is to purchase my first duplex or single family rental. 

It is better to have a couple in good areas (not fancy, just good family areas) than a bunch in areas that are rougher. 

Investment Info:Small multi-family (2-4 units) buy & hold investment.

I'm trying to raise funds from my family and I am being asked to produce pro-forma scenarios at 2, 5, and 10 years which should include IRR and ROI.

This will help guide your decision opposed to investing somewhere for a novel reason.for example for me it was cash flow, price to rent ratio, land lord tenant laws and availability of multi-families(Just to name a few). 

Additional features I like are free esigning and document management, online payments, tenant screening, maintenance requests, vendor payments, owner payouts, owner statements, communications at the  property level and with tenants.Portfolio currently consists of:Owned7 family long term 5 family long term 2 Short term SFManaged 2 Short term SFFuture plans for growth are to continue buying LTRs and managing additional STRs. 

@Andy PtakLeasing agent at multi-family properties can be entry level.

We really like the city of miami very familiar with zoning and set asides. are you looking for smaller developments like single family homes or construction under 5 million?

They sell a 4 unit for close to 1 million dollars close to Jacksonville. they want 250k or 300k down. there's no upside. you can google the properties on biggerpockets and there isn't a lot of satisfaction. it's a slow return and get rich slow strategy. our focus is always as a builder to add maximum value, lower cost as low as possible, build and rent and build and sell the same product and raise prices to help investors out. we have a large market share and large purchasing power in our market in columbus ohio. the one strategy I never liked about turnkey new build brokerage companies like them and build2rent or others is they don't really build close to urban centers and most are single family homes. the numbers don't work on single family homes. if single family was the way to go more companies would be doing it. but by far the most common type of new construction built is three story walk up apartments.