A few tactics that come to mind are: - creating a single listing page (landing page) that captures contact info - paid social ads that drive to the single listing page What's the perfect use case for a single listing page?

There is no perfect software out there.

@Ben Scarborough Would be the perfect contact for you connect with!

So if you are selling for $500k and want to purchase two properties for $250k, that would be perfectly fine.

First, if you're getting $75/month in CF ($9k/yr), and you put $110k in cash in, your CoCR is 9%, not 9.5%.Second, and this is the number that counts (% mean nothing, and will lead you to illusions), if you're getting $9k in cash back/year, and you put in $100k in cash, it will take you (if all goes perfect) over 11 years to recover your cost (cash). 

And that's perfectly okay, if someone doesn't contest your views that's going to hurt you in the long(er) run.

We could see the perfect storm in spring though.

Although you could probably find better investments on paper, vacancy & turnover expenses are some of the most costly parts of owning investment property, and very difficult to forecast with perfect accuracy.

If this works, it would be a perfect way for him to get started in real estate by learning how to house-hack and also building equity while I will get a lower down payment into a high cashflow property.

Strictly speaking from a financial point of view multi family's almost always make more sense unless your walking into some equity in a single family. creating a 5 year goal/plan makes perfect sense actually. thanks.