They want to recycle money quickly to increase their returns, they aren't looking to collect installment payments long term.Rental properties generally get either conventional financing (15 - 30 years fixed) or after that's exhausted or otherwise unavailable, will go with private funding (generally a bit more expensive, shorter amortizations, and variable rates).

Even if you’re not flipping, it’s pretty exhaustive in its checklists, rules of thumb etc that can help shorten the analysis time for a BRRRR.

And we did all this with two little kids, it was stressful and exhausting but I think it's going to be worth it for financial freedom.

It is getting exhausting to keep getting the run around for so long. 

Go-getter mentality is definitely the right way to start in REI.

Try a new mental approach.

While I certainly don't want gang members and graffiti around my potential 4-plex's, I have also mentally accepted that I may not be renting to the "highest caliber" people.

Moving rents to 950 for the living unit rentals makes the 1% still work, and the 50% test becomes $2,250/2 = 1,125*12 = $13,500/0.08 makes it $168,750, so it barely passes.So, I ran the APOD (not exhaustive on a 2U+extra), see the below.This is only one approach, and it may all make sense for what you are trying to do, but it should give you a starting place to figure out what you might want to do. 

I feel like I understand these scenarios pretty well and it is a no brainier, but I am looking for perspective on the mentality of waiting years for a return as opposed to buying outright and getting a quicker return but having cash in.  

So if the filters you want give you enough leads to keep you busy, then don't worry too much about the fact that there may be more... you can always work on figuring out how to find those after you've exhausted the ones that you can find.