I've seen a lot of rehabbers cut major corners and try to leave unsuspecting buyers holding the bag.Not only that but they rarely pull permits, and if a future buyer ever checks for permit status and finds none, the property value goes down, I've seen sometimes dramatically like 50% per SF for non-permitted living space.....

Going to be a Rare buyer that wants to buy 4 single family homes. 

Very rarely does someone's investment property search criteria stay the same as when we originally connected.

Many people start a business and they might even be good at it but are rarely capable of self promotion.

I saw a program recently that combined job offer/school to count towards work history.

These two facts combined mean that every minute spent being "interviewed" is a minute of lost revenue. 

I also understand that a foreclosure process done wrong can cost even more.Does anyone handle their own foreclosures or is it well understand that doing so is a combination of dangerous and foolhardy?

Of course, we could never know the motivations of the perpertrators of the misdeeds, but we found that the mis-doers rarely saw things differently or changed their ways or even owned their biases when confronted.

The lowest property taxes combined with a location that isn't going to lose its appeal anytime soon Seattle, Austin, and stew other cities are also attractive, mostly due to booming prices due to tech that probably won't slow anytime soon.As for the property itself, I'm leaning heavily toward a townhome/ rowhome-style fourplex.

But in my mind it's only second best :)In my mind  the absolute best tax saving strategy available anywhere is the ability to live in a property sell it and take the profit tax free under sec 121 - the primary residence exemption.And being able to combine sec 121 and sec 1031 with small multifamily properties of 4 or fewer units and using favorable primary financing is like throwing gasoline on a fire!!!