Tenants who move into SFH generally stay longer and have fewer turns.Multi-family also suffers from common use costs, trash, lighting, security cameras, landscape.To automatically discount SFH as simply a stepping stone is short-sided.  

I was an NPI Engineer, then a Process Development Engineer, then Design Engineer, and now I'm a Manufacturing Engineer making thermal imaging cameras. 

This is what I use for exactly that purpose:https://www.biggerpockets.com/files/user/kubaf/fil...When I first do a walk through on a property I use this while I walk the property with my camera phone in hand to record the whole place top to bottom narrating the whole thing.  

Next thing cops show up, confiscate all computers in the 4 plex, cameras, cell phones..Kiddie porn was issue and it took several months before the cops were satisfied the landlord had nothing to do with it.. but stress, lawyer fees and grief all could have been avoided if the password and internet access was not shared.

Thats Awesome.Do you pay someone to take them or you have a high resolution camera.

BTW in 1999 I had a digital camera a lot like this one and I would drive neighborhoods and take pictures then mail the owner an 8.5x5.5 postcard with the pic on it.  

We use our phones as a camera. 

He said we had ten charges of trespassing (a number I assume he thought sounded cool) because he caught us on his cameras and he prays to God that I don't come up there again.

So you definitely want to do the extra things like check if there is a live gas line that has been uncapped, run a camera through the sewer pipes, and do some extra research on the infrastructure in the city.

Beautiful 4-unit in Old Oaks has exterior renovations including fenced yard, freshly painted exterior and camera system. 3 of the 4 units have been upgraded in the last year with kitchens, bathrooms, flooring, windows and central air.