Our goals has always been to buy a duplex and house hack it; however, we have been looking on the market for over a year and we have not found any duplexes we can afford.

I plan to use my VA home loan and am thinking it would be a smart idea to team up with another veteran to afford a larger (3-4 family) building instead of just getting a 1-2 family building (depending on the prices that I run across). 

I've also negotiated deals with large manufacturers like Lamborghini, Rolls Royce and Kawasaki.So that is one angle, but what about just traditional rental setup where I try to find long term tenants who can afford to pay $4600+/mo to live in a large 6 bedroom house?

I have a day job as a strategy consultant and live in NYC, so I'm looking at markets that are more affordable than Manhattan. 

These properties have strengths of being very low mortgage cost, room to grow rents over time (they are almost 2% rule), and in a affordable rental class that seems to have a major shortage in today’s world.

Existing tenants are more likely to resent you and cause problems, or they'll be unable to afford the increase (despite their best intentions) and get behind on rent.2.

Right now, a mortgage note will probably take up a big chunk of my monthly income so I do not think I could afford doing both.  

Learned a lot about affordable housing and tax credits Did you work with any real estate professionals (agents, lenders, etc.) that you'd recommend to others?

I use rentredi, for the most part it’s great, affordable easy to use, and it’s integrated with latchel which is pretty cool. but a couple of my issues with it are, there’s no way for a tenant to access and pay on a desktop, only smartphone app.

If you address repairs, hazards and damages when you become aware of them then the law will afford you a great deal of protection and minimize your exposure.You will also have grateful tenants who are less likely to be litigants- but that has a lot to do with vetting as well.