You really cleared things up for me when you said class A,  3-5 years cashflow .

If they are dinged or scuffed you can touch them up with white appliance paint.

So basically in my mind this would not be a great financial move as we be accruing about 200k more in debt if we were to sell one house and take the cash from there and use it as a down payment.

Is there an easy way to divide the basement up?

Also keep in mind the 25k investors is the toughest one.. nervous take a ton of your time etc..

The amount of ideologically inspired nonsense online is mind-boggling. 

I have been following the Real Estate Investing industry for a while and just recently decided to put my focus into it and implement a plan I had in mind for years.So I went down to Puerto Vallarta I put together a team of local realtors, brokers, contractors, property managers and a lawyer. 

Non stop action taking and never giving up plus always making sure we give our absolute best to clients and always reply never making anyone wait and go to a competitor :)  I have Ads, I have a lot of social media posts and updates on all social media platforms daily. 

(Currently managing STRs and that’s taking up a lot of our time)* MFH vs SFH: We could consider a small apartment (20-30 units) but we are mindful of vacancy-risk of SFH and high-PM-cost of MFH.

Even in your area, you may meet other out of state investors so you have more context for when you talk to the people who will make up your team there.