I have been working for major companies for my career so far doing engineering design, equipment and property maintenance, assessments, repairs, contract management, construction management and much more.

Providing your willing and able to spend it and maintain capex schedules, maintenance requests, rent collection, eviction processing, etc.

Many, ourselves included, are pursuing a southward purchasing trend, with Denver investors routinely come down to Colorado Springs, Springs investors to Pueblo, Pueblo investors to Trinidad and so on.

., I use a service called cozy.co for Tenant Application, screening, lease maintenance and rent collections (automatic bank ACH).

Leave a message or if it is a maintenance emergency call the after hours maintenance pager.If it goes beyond that, I plan to put a sign on my door that states office hours.

Brother in law B is handy with maintenance and will also contribute 25% of the DP. 

.- your first problem will be getting the tax liens: when bidding at auction, the interest rate routinely gets bid down to 10% or less, so it's actually very hard to get 16% liens.

However, there are many things to be aware of with this type of situation:  If your wife's IRA owns the other half of the duplex, you will not be able to do any maintenance, nor use that part of the yard for your own personal use, and so forth.  

I simply let the tenant know about the change of ownership via a letter, telling them what number to call in case of needing maintenance and where to send the rent check.  

Its Probably going to cash trickle more than cash flow but thats all you need for your first Multi:-) Its also a great option since it is so small and you won't be paying nearly as much in maintenance as you would for 2 or 3bed units.