., "I will buy at least one single-family home, duplex, triplex, or fourplex before the end of 2019") and then do it.

Eventually I want to get into single family and multi family rentals.As far as effort or work on the fixers;  my brother in law is quite handy and my next door neighbor has said he would help in anything that is out of my scope of expertise. 

Or better said, they are vastly inferior to single family properties.- With $100K, you have a lot of options. 

Freddie Mac only offers financing for single properties they do not offer 'Portfolio loans" meaning bundle them all into one loan.

Where single family rentals weren't exciting to me, building and developing land and redeveloping old spaces really intrigued me.

There is no single website to easily find them (that I'm aware of) and if there was, I'd imagine you'd be competing with 1000s of other investors.  

I have a tenant occupied single in Allentown for sale.

., "I will buy at least one single-family home, duplex, triplex, or fourplex before the end of 2019") and then do it.

Hello everyone, I have 13 years of experience as a landlord with two single family rental properties.

I never said you can't make money buying entry level single family homes in the Midwest or any market for that matter....but the investors who are most inclined to succeed are the hands on operators, not the passive investors or those paying retail price for a turn key in a lower tier neighborhood with no barriers of entry.