Multis feel more like a house and you have one person living with you (or 2 or 3 depending on duplex, trip, or quad), whereas an apartment complex has more amenities, but people sharing walls everywhere.

I was just hoping to find people here before I go messaging people personally.

Hey @Sara Carter, we've helped a few people find lenders for a similar situation.

Would I contact the previous closing attorney and tell them I need a quit claim deed from the people I technically bought from?

Personally, I've been investing more than 50 years and never looked at the demographics for a neighborhood one time because I always felt that you need more personal knowledge about the neighborhood e.g. whether it is blue-collar working people, whether it infested with gangbangers, what the ability to increase rents is, etc. and the only way to get a good feeling and understanding is to personally visit the neighborhoods in the daytime, evenings and on weekends because weekends and nighttime is when the bad people come out like cockroaches.

There are dozens of markets in your backyard you could invest in and be hands on.Where is your property located?

I am looking to start off house hacking but with so many listings I would like to know if there are some strategies for organizing home information (real estate software, excel set up, hand written, etc).

Just like some people prefer pick up trucks to cars or Chevy to Ford.

But the reality is most people rent these spaces, a lot of homeowners depend on this income. 

It wouldn't surprise me, though, since most people opt for the cheapest insurance they can possibly get and then are disappointed when the coverage sucks.