A few other things you may want to think about are:Are you looking for single family homes to rent or multi family units and is there a minimum number of bedrooms and/or bathrooms that you require in each unit.Although I started my career working with renters, I have since moved on to RE investors. 

To give some more information on my plan, I am in the beginning stages of contacting lawyers, agents, contractors, mortgage brokers, and hard money lender to build out my contact list.Simultaneously, I am beginning to develop systems for generating leads.I have been listening to the BP Podcast for the past year and it has been a tremendous help in driving my interest in REI.  

Anyone know of good property managers with great systems that focus on larger complexes?

NOW, if we are to have the HOA responsible for the interior of each of the units as well, here are the eminent problems I foresee:    - owners will be even more careless and act irresponsibly for their units since they don't pay for the repairs of the interior of their units    - because many of the owners rent their units (technically they sublease), they will be even less incentivized to maintain their units    - the HOA pays for all maintenance and repairs of units and owners get the benefit of rent    - repairs/maintenance of units is not properly proportioned to their respective owners, meaning that there is no incentive to keep my property up because any repairs will come out of the pocket of all other owners    - this penalizes good owners and rewards slummy owners    - this will put the owner residents at a big disadvantage because the owners who rent their units will cause maintenance fees to increase for all owners, especially due to high turnover    --> in Summary, this is a straight example of socialist-style system (I know, my family immigrated to the US from the USSR) and it will just sink our whole Co-op.  

There are several rental platform that use ACH direct deposit systems including Cozy and Rentberry.

Those property's NOI would sell for the same cap rate and a cost to cure adjustment would be subtracted below the line.Finally CAP RATE IS OF ABSOLUTELY NO USE AT ALL FOR SFR'S AND SMALL MULTI'S! 

I'm looking for sfr, multi family and land deals in your area.

My criteria is a multi-family property with the intent to buy and hold for cash flow. 

I have been looking into buying a multi-family home and living in/renting it out as a first property, but I need to learn a lot more before acting on it!

We're mostly interested in a SFH mountain cabin, rather than a condo (although always open to a multi!).