I purchased and re-positioned a small 1990 C+ class apartment community with affordable rents and I have been investing passively in value add affordable mobile home park communities.Of all the market forces discussed on BP, the affordable housing shortage is the one undeniable force and it likely will not be solved in my lifetime.our west coast MHPs  are priced at cap rates like A and B multi and in HIGH demand..  

They offered a Multi-Level Marketing option which they annoyingly over-advertised would pay for the education in no time if I recruited others, but I couldn't shake the fact that if the education was so good then why wouldn't they advertise that with the wealth of knowledge I would be receiving that I could pay for the classes..

We plan on house hacking a multi-unit or large single-family using the VA loan.  

I am currently focusing on fix and flips and 2-4 unit multi unit.

It sounds like you are making this property an investment property so the FHA 203K would not be an answer because you are required to occupy the the home (a multi-family home is ok if you occupy one of the units). 

Concentrate on investing in multi unit purpose built B class properties.

(Multi-fam obviously have some common area exemptions to this). 

I have a multi-unit in Baltimore who recently acquired new neighbors.. they have two pit bulls who are in the yard 24/7 and whenever anybody is outside they lunge at the fence growling and barking to no end.

I’d like to look at multi-family as part of my rental investing plan, but this would be a strategy for my primary residence and I’d be looking for a SFR. 

Living in Austin, Texas at the moment, its a hot market, but it takes a lot of capital to start to invest in multi-family.