My investment strategy did not change a bit, but I learned of this strategy and took advantage of it to save huge on taxes and wanted to share this with the investor community. 

Hello @Daniel Reed,The supposed advantage of multi-family properties over single-family homes is misleading when you look at financial performance.

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I had a distinct advantage over my competition who had to do their own courthouse searchs.

The advantage if needed by calling it an investment home is that you can use the potential income from the property to help your debt to income ratio where you cannot do this on a second home. 

There are many great advantages to being a buyer or seller. 

I did this in the MS market and while the advantages you pointed out were true.. markets that have slow appreciation and or areas where builders can keep building for low dollar amounts like the mid west.

One of the potential advantages of property managers is access to the vendors they use. 

Take clear photos while it's vacant for marketing now and future.Provide a win/win renewal rate and lease length to keep the good tenants in their homes to a more advantageous end date. 

The low Australian dollar is giving Australian wines a competitive advantage intl. these days.