In the past, I've explored "up and coming" markets by pulling US census data and mapping areas with large population growth.

If it is not legal, it will not scale.

I owe $230k on a 30yr fixed at 3.5% with about 23 years left to go.My concerns are: losing a great rate and paying taxes/commission on a large chunk of the equity. 

Maybe the author doesn’t have a phone either and they couldn’t call any Very large landlords here to get their opinion and instead faxed a request for an opinion from someone that owns no homes in Vegas but once visited a strip club here?

In February 2018 we found a large SFH in the town I went to College at.

How large is the MF property?

They run it like any other business that you expect to make big money at .. they have VERY LARGE amount of working capital.. spend Hundreds of thousands a year in marketing..

While I will not buy large properties immediately I do plan on moving into this space by next year unless something makes sense now.Any advise on neighborhoods to visit or leads to professionals that support real estate investors please let me know.

We are planning to house-hack when we move and use some savings to do some flipping to fund some brrrr deals on some smaller mfr's and scale up from there.I almost forgot this is just an introduction.

I've actually found that some people want a relationship with the people who are putting their hard earned retirement money to work, rather then sending it off to large institutions they hope values it the way they do.I use retirement money for building new multi-family, new SFR, and flips.