To this point, most of my experience has been with single family houses and a duplex but would consider larger multi unit property's if I could get the financing and the numbers work.

My goals are to start in the greater phoenix area, preferably a duplex or triplex .  

My goals are to start in the greater Orlando area, preferably a duplex or triplex .

Etc....... there are about 10 duplex’s before mine and they are all alike (townhouse kind of styled)....MY duplex starts the next set and there are about 10 of ours as well (side by side styled) across the street and the rest of the neighborhood are alllllllll single family homes that are pretty nice and well maintained.So I recently cut down a pine tree from my front yard that I felt like was just a hassle due to the pines that it dropped leaving a constant mess...I bought a Japanese maple tree to put in place of where the pine was and some small shrubs to fill the middle of the duplex and the sides.....The duplexes I mentioned that were BEFORE me all have small trees alike and all are maintained by some landscaping company and from mines down all pretty much have PINE trees.

Three years ago I got this bright ideas to remove the carpet in my condo.  

Looking more for a duplex to start. 

Seems to me you might want to grab a duplex, tri or quad, conventional finance and live in one of the units.

Little to no equity with a potential capital gain and depreciation recapture.I have a similar situation with a condo I bought in 2006.You can still do a low equity to zero equity 1031 to push forward the depreciation recapture and capital gain.

I have a property that I am considering converting to and getting rezoned as a duplex.

I've also got a couple of 100 year old duplexes in St Paul with some seriously bumpy/wonky plaster!