congratulation on your success, but you should stop telling new hosts to post on multi platforms because the occupancy rate matters a lot.  

In a nutshell, IL (where I live) too expensive of a market, but WI, MI, OH etc seems like you’d get more bang for your buck. also,  you can look at a City’s  consolidation plan and what their plans are for development to get a good forecasting of housing booms.

The most common asset type was commercial multis 7-10 units. 

When I used to have RE Broker in my title ( I still have the license just dont practice) I would get folks pinging me about Vegas about once a quarter or so and I would hand those leads to my Daughter  she made some pretty awesome connections from a few of those folks that bought multi million dollar homes..

From my limited research so far I believe I'm most interested in BRRRR and Multi-Family.

This doesn't mean that you can't purchase a multi-unit (duplex, triplex, etc.), but I do not believe that you will qualify for VA loan entitlement if you purchased a property that is not your primary residence.

I started with multifamily but price expectations have gotten out of control.Just refinanced my multi-tenant retail property and pulled out much more cash than I put in. 

In the case of a multi-unit, the units you rent will be considered investment property *I am not a CPA, so trust but verify :)

The tenant base is generally 95% single women with 2 to 5 kids and they flat destroy houses, Not on purpose  most of the time but if you have children all below 10 years old they are just brutual on houses even in the best of situations of which single parent with multiple baby daddys is not the best of circumstances.. full stop.I was thinking since I only have about $80k to invest it was the best bang for my buck, now that you say that it sounds like I'd maybe have to bite the bullet but really not sure how I can still get the same or better cashflow for the cash I have available.Also curious on your opinion of using Home Warranties, PM, Home Insurance, and Requiring Rental Insurance to mitigate some of those future issues

I have a close associate with a large project there and the local banks have turned off the spick-et on funding his developments and these are very large multi thousand acre deals.