You could monitor the taxes and insurance payments yourself.

These kinds of transactions continue to take monitoring and a careful eye.

Then work on executing your plan and monitoring you business.

. - you don't have to "mark" a thread by posting in it; you can check the box near the top of the page that says "Monitoring Topic", and then you can find them on the "My Watched Topics" tab on the main forums page.

Few factors that drove me to mf right out of the gate: 1) only get so many Fannie/Freddie loans on traditional financing so I wanted as many doors under each loan as possible 2) can consolidate cap ex protects like new roof/siding (though keep in mind, bigger/taller property will mean more $$ for each project than a sfh--though still cheaper as a whole) 3) closing costs are roughly the same for a sfh or triplex so better to get a 3 for 1, 4) especially if youre out of state like I am, easier to track and manage everything for 6 units in two properties rather than 6 separate properties (I use property management but you still need to monitor/manage the pm).

I'll use the drawing tool (just hope the crayon comes of my monitor when I'm done)

I understand that I can do much of the monitoring and tracking of follow up using excel spreadsheets.

Are you monitoring it?

Slowly increase the rents at the end of leases and monitor your appreciation. 

There are usually some good, local investors that monitor those forums.