Conventional financing is a great place to start as the interest rates will be lower. 

Lenders or investors who have short lock up periods but have years of experience feeding their business with new capital would give me more comfort but anyone who is just starting and is promising a rate of return or return of capital in a set period of time would be alarming because they very well could be reliant on fresh capital to make good on that promise and that usually ends poorly.

And, Insurance Rates continue to climb.

Crime rate is high in this neighborhood.

Many have pulled out of insuring multifamily properties or only cover up to 4-unit buildings.While Allstate doesn’t have a unit cap, they do cap total coverage at $750K on a landlord policy—which is why I’m exploring options for supplemental coverage.The carrier raised my rate by ~86% on all three properties under this policy.

With overall cooling rents, high mortgage rates, and chaos in Washington, I'm definitely being careful about what I buy this year.

Investment also spiked in Class A Short-Term Rentals (STR) and investors started paying higher and higher prices based upon anticipated STR rental rates, that exceeded sustainability based upon Long-Term Rental rates (LTR).

With online platforms like Angie you can filter by their rating and reviews. 

I'd recommend newbies get 2-3 estimates for each product from different contractor (hopefully ones that come referred or at the very least highly rated on a platform like here or Angie's list).

Don't look for lowest rate, look for lowest cost on fees as you will either refinance out of that loan or sell- the prepay will hit you on the back of the head like a cinderblock wall.