Median Price: $678,500, +6.02% Yoy.Closed Sales: 4,216, -11.89% Yoy.YTD Closed Sales: 21,325, +1.38% Yoy.12 Month Closed Sales: 38,118, -8.70 Yoy.Inventory: 6,035, +31.62% Yoy.YTD inventory: 33,454, -1.59% Yoy.New Listings: 4,349, +10.77% Yoy.YTD New Listings: 29,789, +8.16% Yoy.Months Supply: 1.8, +38.46% Yoy.Cumulative Days on Market: 29, +3.57% Yoy.Existing Home Inventory as a Percent of Households: 0.22%.

In 2018 we began sourcing off market deals by doing direct mail marketing campaigns.

property is currently in a reverse mortgage need $308k to satisfy. currently 3 units and wanting to remodel to create a 4th.Rural low economy market with high demand and very few rentals available in area.

They often have off-market deals that might fit your criteria better.

It's been on market for about 180 days. 

The plan: I am identifying on/off market properties that are targets, will do all of the real estate work (listing, showing, advertising, vetting, etc) and will split the cost of the purchase of the home and the material costs for any needed repairs.The contractor will be subbing out portions of the job and be on site mostly full time until the project is completed. 

will 3b has a steady market?

I don't know what market your rental is in.

Similar to you, I'm thinking about other strategies for off-market leads and tried direct mailers, but not sure how effective that is for multifamily.

You might be able to get a better yield by finding a value-add project or a BRRR type property, but the market rate stabilized is 4-6% probably.Just be careful of insurance right now, it's been going up and seems to have stabilized, but it's still all over the map depending on the specific property and who is doing the insurance.