Find a meetup or network on here, see what they are doing and copy it. 

Guess I'll copy/paste it in the SC one also.

Majority of the homes in the area are being sold as "single family", and this type of multi family house seems to be going out of style.What im thinking about doing is offering her seller financing, wait for the leases to end on the tenants and then renovate and sell.

You'll have to get a new mortgage based on your creditworthiness alone as most mortgages out there are already sold to investors, the originating bank no longer owns them.

I have acquired a property through tax sale which sold to the state in 2016.

., a condo I recently sold while being rehabbed), and houses that remained on Zillow for a year or more after they were sold.

Unless you hate the rental (I sold 3 of my least faves over the last 11 months) I'd probably keep it.Transaction costs will eat you alive if you sell every few years.

We purchased a small condo in San Jose, CA in 2012 and as my husband is a residential construction project manager who has several skills, we were able to semi-rehab the place, held and sold for a single family home. 

I have a friend that just sold a very modernized and beautiful 1/2 for less than 800k. 

So every investment property sold is as a loss, to an idiot?