I would like information on traditional and creative ways of financing this purchase ... thank you 

The key difference is that apartments are valued based on Net Operating Income, while the others are based on Comparative Sales Analysis. 

How does the current rents compare to the local rental market?  

Here is how that would work, comparing a Payoff to investing it:Invest the $60k       Year           Payoff$      0                    Starting      -$60,000 (You are stat at a negative of $60k with a payoff)$  7,200                 Year 1        -$48,800$14,400                 Year 2        -$38,600      $21,600                     3             -$28,400$28,800                     4             -$18,200$36,000                     5             -$  8,000$43,200                     6              $  2,200 (You are finally positive)Now it is usually somewhere between year 7-10 that the property is sold or refinanced due to CAPEX costs jumping in, and/or appreciation.$50,400                     7              $12,400$57,600                     8              $22,600$64,800                     9              $32,800$72,000                   10              $43,000Where would you rather be? 

However, if you are thinking of something a little maybe quicker when compared to wholesaling, then I'd say research buy and hold rentals. 

Credit and Assets would also need to be analyzed for a traditional type of loan. 

A safe option for idle funds or you can easily buy MFs or stocks if you want to, of course.Plus, after doing my taxes it turned out a traditional IRA contribution would be 60% free for me.

Does this true and how much higher of a duplex compared to a SFR on interests?

I came across a really cool tool that helps you analyze regions' evictions rates and other metrics.https://evictionlab.org is the tool.You can sort the rate of evictions by states and compare stats by income levels, rates of evictions by days, and even rental property rates. 

One day I was researching non-traditional marketing strategies so I decided to try to cold call some neighborhoods that I was interested in.