I've looked into SOFI and refinancing but I'm not sure if that's possible since I'm actually paying down the 75k in student loans that are under my parent's name (they took out the loans during undergrad and I'm paying the loans down after I became employed).If you don't mind, could you recommend the best way to find a multi-family/duplex to "hack"?

The goal i sit with is to maximize leverage abillity for me, and having already maxed out with conventional financing in norway, i now seek employment abroad.

The size of the tank matters, find out how many gallons it could hold and how full it is.

I'm pretty inexpensive (about half compared to typical small firms) because I also work full time as an attorney, and merely practice on the side to assist with my real estate deals and pay down law school debt (which is mortgage-sized), but I'm also very good (graduated with honors, guest lecturer, published papers, etc). 

Also it depends on the size of the project you are looking into doing.  

Might it not be a good time to sell anyway (down-size, buy a relative dump or those sort of options)?

My primary source of income/employment has nothing to do with real estate.2.

FYI the "mismatch" sized unit thing is both not uncommon and not a very large problem.

I'm also employed full time as a marketing executive in the medical device industry; real estate is a passion and pursuit but isn't my j-o-b.Near my investment properties is a 37-unit  with paved off-street parking lot, combined with a few rental houses that are adjacent to it.

I have always been interested in real estate investing, but the security of full time employment & raising my family took priority.