The home had potential and was a great starter house to learn on.

Here are some ideas just for starters (though it may depend if you are 4 units, 40 or 400)...I won't put full cite in interest of brevity.Landlording (Leigh Robinson) is a classic and in the umpteenth edition.

@Rikard CederbergHi Rikard, I am a starter in real investing as well from Sweden, Gothenburg.

For starters, it is fully compliant, whereas Dodd-Frank regulations revolve around lenders & Wall Street, not private, individual investors.

They are desirable for RE investor starters with living in one side and renting the other. 

A starter would be what is your expectation for a going in pre-tax cash flow versus what you are getting now in the stock market??

Those books are good starters.

For starters, there are fewer people looking to rent in that market, and you will have more trouble filling vacancies. 

It's a non-starter if you go out of your market. 

This is kind of the BRRR strategy that people talk about.But, in general, equity on 4-plexes right now could be a non-starter for exactly the same reasons you're trying to get one.