I found this deal by driving the neighborhood and tracking down the owner cold call style.

The credit unions often maintain these style loans and refer to them as "house loans".

If you're using a real estate agent for example, you can have them make that one of the search criteria in the MLS.If you do feel you have to go with condominiums, then yes town houses are better than apartment-style units simply because they look more like single families.

Without seeing the property and style of house and not knowing the square footage and not knowing what you want to accomplish, it generally goes like this.1.

Don't be one of those people.I use this story a lot -- 5 years ago, when the market wasn't even as hot as it is now -- I sold my 1 bedroom "loft style" home in South Philly to a NY cash buyer.

Gov Newsom is signing laws like it’s going out of style!

Start with Craigslist and look for similar properties to yours in comparable neighborhoods (# of beds, baths, same square feet, condition, and style ie SFR, duplex, apartment, etc).  

You will only be able to buy one property at a time with a low down payment, if you are meaning FHA style lending, as you have to wait until you get to 25% equity in the previous loan before you can take out another and a lot of the low down loan products require that you occupy the property for at least a year.  

Same when I look at the public records, it will come as a Single Family Residential in the Land Use description (it does show Duplex-Triplex in the Built Use/Style description).So how can I refresh my search that can include both units (#1 and #2) in the address so it doesn't exclude the ones describe as SFR?

My contractor is recommending the house be resided with some T-111 because the bottom part of the siding, about knee height and down has some rot and he doesn't think we can find the same style siding to match.