I am a contractor so this house is an attractive deal for me as the circumstances can work. 

Within an organization, you can temper that to some extent by creating an attractive enough opportunity that it would be difficult for the person to replace it elsewhere, but by and large your employees will almost always fall into one of two camps:1.

You also, in general, get a different type of tenant for a 6 plex/apartment vs. single family house.A single family house will attract families, multi generational families, boy friend/girl friend with his, hers, and/or theirs kids for the most part.Apartments attract single people, recent divorcees, starting out couples, students. 

Other areas of Baltimore county produce better cash flow.

or single family)- close monitoring of initial investment, minimal money down2) BRRRR in Denver area if feasible, considering out of state- Focus right now is getting pre-approved for FHA financed property and close on an attractive deal.

Since then, I've been doing a lot of reading/research and I'm attracted by the opportunities that real estate offers.

Yuba city is attractive for cash flow.  

If we have conservatives running the country, you can count on renting STRs to travelling workers in energy producing areas. 

And, while I'm not a farmer, income producing property basically does the same thing.  

The only thing I'd worry about is that could make your offer less attractive in a multiple offer situation.