Even if you don't owner occupy, you're 50k down could push you into a 200k building in a much better area, with fewer headaches and better returns.

But available properties are definitely fewer these days.

That is an across the board recommendation to consumers from economists, financial planners, banks. 

Automated payments from consumer accounts can be reversed most times with no penalty, provided they were not legitimate and/or a mistake. 

Almost every client I get is struggling to manage their property because they thought it was easy, hassle free, not time consuming.

It will just be more difficult and these properties will be in the riskier areas of town and fewer in numbers.

@Greg Dickerson is right that smaller multis are usually safer because you have fewer units to lease. 

It also acts as a listing service for the consumer as well. 

Need more pictures to really be able to tell.This type of work is fairly easy if you know what you are doing, just time consuming and bit of a pain working in tight quarters.

In order to find a deal, I’ve spent a lot of my time first listening to BP, I took the real estate salesperson class, read a number of books, articles and anything else I can consume to first learn the how first and decide what type of investing I want to do (buy and holds).