@Lee Underhill if you can buy $80k condos, with reasonable association fees, and rent them for nearly $2k per month, buy every one you find!

I currently own a condo rental and a boarding house in Washington state, and have been in RE for a couple of years, though only investing for a year.

So if I start with a duplex or a quad as my first property my goal would be to have a net cash flow of $500I intend to use the "BRRRR" (Buy, Rehab, Rent, Refinance, Repeat) method but have never used this strategy before so I still have a lot to learnIf I only close on two deals starting in 2019 then I will need to find another 20 deals in the remaining four years (2020-2024) that also meet this criteriaBeyond 2024 I plan to continue to scale even more over the next 3-5 years with an end goal of financial independence by ~2030 (meaning that I will not work a "day job" but will passively manage my real estate portfolio)Biggest hurdle: I'm going to be living outside of the US for the next 3 years and will (likely) not be able to physically see any properties that I plan to purchase.

Desirability in SA seems to be heavily driven by school ratings for family homes, and proximity to the bases or medical center for smaller units (condos or apts).

He ended up buying a quad and a duplex I believe using his a VA loan. 

I'm starting to BRRRR duplex, triplex and quadplexes here in the Indianapolis area.

I am currently able to save around $2500/month and am wondering what some of your opinions are as far as a route to go for starting off in this area and market.I am either looking to find a duplex and house hack it, or start with finding a good single family deal and live in it for a year while building equity and then move to a duplex and house hack it.

Outside of my very first purchase which is a duplex that I house hacked, I a very proud of my first non-owner occupied property.

Account ClosedWhat are condo tels? 

So this is a duplex, you're listing $1200 as rent, so I assume that's both sides.