My main reason for considering commercial is because 1) the duplex and triplex and even 4plex market in my area is very competitive and it drives purchasing prices too high. 2) I guess I’m kind of a pretty ambitious guy and my wife has followed my lead and trusted my guidance and I want to help our growing family (2 kids and 1 on the way) meet our financial goals as fast as I can!

It is always a good idea to drive around the prospective neighborhood to see what it looks like.

I was driving for dollars and found a property that looks vacant.

What's the best/cheapest way to skip trace phone numbers from houses i find from driving for dollars?

There the strategy is to get basic houses out near the big industrial plants and rent them. 

This will be your biggest hurdle - but you are only in Austin so driving up for a potential property under contract isn't impossible either. 

I plan on taking the 3ish hour drive out to the property tomorrow, but wanted to get some input on things, maybe yall can think of some reason the house is priced so low. 

I have been doing it for 4 years now, it is not a great source of income, more work, some of them are demanding, but better than having a vacancy.If you are not responsive, you might have vacancy.I basically charge little higher and make them pay one rent everything included.Provide everything except cable.

Not sure if I calculated the ROI correctly, basically to what i would net in rental income in a year and divided it by my outnof pocket costs which was around 110k.

basically i trust this guy to do a good job.