Some of my best clients have extremely busy work and personal lives and travel constantly.

Hello,After lurking around for a bit, I decided to sign up for a BiggerPockets account and join in the conversation (actually, mostly asking questions at this point).I live in Waukesha, WI and I own my tiny house outright :-)I'd like to start investing in multi-family real estate (duplex, triplex, four-plex), and I have two questions for the community here . . .1) From what I've read so far, it seems that under four units, multi-family properties usually aren't valued by a CAP rate, but still, I'm curious.

If I'd have had 5 homes, that would have been extremely painful.

The trick with doing that, obviously, is that you have to pick up the houses at extremely good LTV's because you have to add in the finance costs for the hard money lender as well.re: Other questions1) Use of heloc?

But keep in mind, they are extremely 'popular' and have plenty of other 'offers' (::cough:: bribes).

Just don't get out to far,do one and get a feel for it, because the market may be slowing down a teeny tiny bit!

I'm extremely interested in getting my hands dirty and would love to be on the site assisting with the rehabs!

The trade off is very low maintenance and the Rental market is extremely hot in these areas so you can charge high dollar rents. 

@Darnell Kramer Having flipped hundreds of homes, my experience has taught me to *ALWAYS (*unless extremely unusual circumstances) rehab first if I want top dollar.

Making houses into a place someone else can be proud to call home would be an extremely gratifying career for me.I would love to hear from any real estate investors in my area that I can possibly gain some knowledge from or any new investors that could be potential team members.I look forward to all the new faces I am going to meet and experiences I will encounter on this new chapter in my life.