I watched the latest newbies podcast which was fantastic and convinced me to sign up here.I'm wondering what some of the best sites are to search/filter specifically for 3- or 4- unit properties so I can practice running numbers/analysis.

And I usually hear from my tenant once or twice a year, because they are always travelling or busy otherwise...BUT you can only get these tenants easily if the property is in a urban core, very close to LOTS of high paying jobs....I am not familiar with your local market, but if it is NOT a big urban core, you are probably going to hard time finding someone willing to pay $5K in rent.....EXPECT long vacancy

The buyer turned around and put it up on VRBO and easily makes the annual HOA fees through rental income.  

I would ask about RICO and how easily the government can take property used to commit a crime with.

While in Indy, the monthly rent is half of it and you can get tenant out in 3 weeks easily, and this rent amount is not for a low end property, so as long as you do good screening, your chance of eviction is not bigger than CA. 

We're looking at single family homes and estimate we can easily get over $2K/mo.  

Plus, someone with that income can easily afford the median priced home here in Sacramento.Mid-career employees in tech are making an median of roughly of $130-160k, which is more than double the median income for the area.

I'm easily amused

The large apartment building market definitely seems to be getting a little to overheated these days, so I try to stay in my easily understood wheelhouse with good cash on cash returns.

John houses in the area are mainly 3bedroom 2 baths but there is a 4 bedroom 2 bath going for 56000 but as I said in the post the third floor could be another bedroom or home office so once rehabbed I believe I could easily get 60000 to 65000.