@Justin Boyd just saw the location on this, I'm somewhat familiar with that market, we do quite a few retail deals in CLE and the surrounding areas, I'd be happy to give you an opinion on the site if its helpful.  

I've only owned a couple sfh am middle-aged and not sure I agree with flipping sfh at this point to create wealth, time freedom and passive income so I have been reading and there seems to be a lot of talk with multi-families and more specifically apartment investing.

You might find a HML hard money lender that may offer this but your going to pay a ridiculous rate and points/fee's.  

Received a letter that they are more than doubling my monthly fee + a $50 meter reading fee, and unfortunately this is a cost that the state does not allow us to pass along to the tenant!

Funny you mentioned this.

The minimum down payment for a property in this price range would be roughly $27K.That said, you also need to account for bank closing costs, inspection costs, appraisal, attorney fee, and title costs.Your scenario may require a seller's concession to account for these additional expenses.Investing with $50K is totally possible in this market but your journey may be met by challenges i.e.

This should be avoided. 

While doing that, rethink how to best invest and deploy your corpus.I saw this article and thought of your plight.  

Hello @James Wang,Your current management experience will be helpful as a realtor in NY.What are some specialization of realtors?

In that situation I purchased a SF property 4 hours away from me this year as a fix-n-flip and to test the hypothesis that long distance fix-n-flips could be viable investments.