While I absolutely agree with the two Gentlemen who said buy a fourplex and put 5% down as your primary, it's going to be extremely difficult to find anything on market that's affordable and even harder to find anything off market.

Property Management of long term rentals takes very little time and someone with an extremely demanding w2 can still easily handle managing several units.If you are in tune with your market, you can likely get better/higher rents on your units than property managers would.

We have a great rental market, the state is extremely landlord friendly, and the price points make much more sense than some of the other markets you're looking into.

There are so many more single families in every market and in newer markets multifamily can be extremely scarce though I have heard how certain areas are encouraging ADUs to aid in the housing shortage. 

It is extremely important that you find competent people to work with in this economic environment. 

Really Feel like I/we have nailed down that best balance of Price/Roi/location here in Metro Detroit My rental portfolio is here and performs extremely well with minimal headaches.Purchase: $80k-$130kRent: $1200-$1500ROI: 10-14%Cash flow: $250-$350/doorAppreciation: Double digit (for past 10 years, will gladly send data)Location: C+, B- (suburbs and certain markets)Basically 1.2-1.4% dealsWe have over a dozen Fortune 500 companies just in Metro Detroit with huge Healthcare, Auto, and mortgage industry National footprints.

This is making it extremely awkward for me and the other landlord, the fact that she is not willing to be spoken to by him is absolutely crazy to me.  

This is a great RE market for return but the socialist rental policies can be extreme.

For example, Biggerpocket is extremely useful for the technicality aspect of real estate investing (eg, extremely useful information on how to manage/work with tenants; to understand tax rules and regulations and understand what needs to be done during certain situations) ; but it's less useful when we're asking for opinion for investment (which city to invest,etc).

This is extremely cash flow negative.