16 unit apartment building located right on the main street in town. 

That is one of the main reasons to take that path so that you can vastly increase your equity immediately.Your "cons" of 1 BRRR is throwing me off. 

Also this is a main road where there is cars coming consistently. 

When you start borrowing that much money through multiple HELOCs, the limiting factor tends to be DTI, not equity.

  - last week we rented a dumpster and completed all demo, including kitchen cabinets, appliances, laundry room,  and main plumbing wall, and I had the old-inwall furnaces torn out.- I was able to get all the electrical wiring repaired. 

My main questions for starting out would be if I should I go with multi family or single family and should I go class B or class C properties?

They have good bigger "main event meetings" and they have subgroups which are more intimate settings based on a specific area of real estate.https://www.lasouthreia.com/learn/upcoming-events/

If we are looking at a house for both of us strictly, we need to look at a different price point (more around 180k range) and than consider the next 1-2 years to save for a down-payment on an investment strictly.My question to this group: What are some pros and cons that you think about when determining - peace of mind living in your space vs. looking at the space as income-generating/business mainly?

There are many factors that someone who works in the market daily will understand that a computer program simply won't.

I will likely just adjust the offer to cover the $ amount the seller would receive in rent.There are two factors that concern me in the potential difficulty in getting the tenants to vacate the property, 1 is they are paying very cheap rent for the stats of the home and 2 the grow room obviously was constructed with considerable effort which I anticipate may influence them to dig their heels in and potentially squat illegally.