This seems like a viable strategy, but I am having difficulty finding specific details on how it works, and what qualifies.

Finding those tenants would be more difficult. I

I think it all has potential, but the difficulty in getting answers when something significant is going wrong is enough to reverse my feelings on the company, unfortunately. 

Even the smaller communities outside of Waikiki have difficulty making numbers work, if you're lucky you break even on just paying expenses on PITI and HOA, once you tack on vacancy, repairs and capex you're negative.I can't really speak about Colorado, but Hawaii in general is a tough market to crack. 

Banks at the time wouldn’t lend to me for at least another year and I was having difficulty understanding how to actually get private money.

To complicate matters you are closely related to that person and there are difficulties in your relationship.Assuming that reasoning with the responsible relative will not work. 

But from my market research I have done it would 1 be there difficulty to find a multiplex home in even a decent area, 2 would be even harder to find decent renters at best. 

I'm having difficulty working through it and was wondering if anybody in Georgia know how to work it.

Sounds like you’ll have to replace some rotten decking as well, so that will add to the difficulty.

I feel stuck here because I'm having difficulty saving up for next house.