Okay, so if I am newer to Multi-family RE (I have done a lot of residential RE), and I want to be the person finding the deal, crunching the numbers, person on the ground who hustles....

I am currently crunching my numbers to purchase a  94 year old  duplex (5 bed/2 bath) property.

I am new and I have been crunching numbers and analyzing deals as well.

With my partner running operations on the ground and me in full time practice we had little time to review new deals or crunch numbers to make sure acquiring new properties would be affordable or attractive.

I would also learn how to crunch the numbers so that I would know when I had a good deal and as far as the amount of money you have I agree with @Simon Shih I would house hack.

I work in data science at Freddie Mac where my team crunches a lot of mortgage data for machine learning, data mining, and data visualization. 

@Anne Williams go about ur ordinary business and crunch ur numbers.

I haven’t crunched the numbers on your idea here but I’ve done a couple of BRRRR’s and did very well.  

They have a steady paycheck, the get housing allowance etcI'm no where near in the area of expertise on whether you should or shouldnt... that def depends on the numbers you crunch/market.

Hi @Eric Kulling, I am relatively new so take the information as you will however, I am working through a similar process and wanted to share my thoughts. 1) The first thing I did was hop on the MLS and start crunching numbers on properties all over the place.