If it's a generic question on MFR, many owners of MF units will consider seller financing and you'd be able to get in at a lower down payment entry point.

Medium term goal is to generate enough passive income to modestly supplement our incomes.

If the latter, you would have to supplement all funds needed to make the purchase above the amount the lender is willing to lend against their value of the property.  

A subsequent divorce, new child support payments, less time with my kids and having to rebuild my life sent me back on my original quest for passive income streams as well as re-establishing supplemental income from wholesaling with a new strong desire to complete my first rehab/flip but with an obviously significant need for private financing and/or hard money partners to help. 

I want to learn how to take my "small" income and turn it into something I can be proud of by investing and supplementing it.  

How are you going to supplement your current income during the transition.  

My own personal income can't cover the kind of mortgage that's going to take, even with a supplemental rental income to defray it.

I'm an airline pilot and my wife a dental hygienist, looking for some passive income to supplement our regular income.

Another is the ability to administer without court proceedings, absent litigation.I suggest you look for administration of a decedent's estate, a probate with an executor, administrator or (generically) personal representative.

I've been making my way through all the podcasts over time, and I'm just about halfway through.I learned the basics of real estate investing at a young age, watching my father manage two properties which he inherited, and quickly realized it was a great way to make supplemental income.