For conventional lending look-up WJB Mortgage in your area.  

I have some inventory to unload....the problem is, it's back at my home!

Maybe there's an opening for MFRs since SFR prices are consistently going up here(at least it seems to me) since there looks to be a low amount of inventory.  

I've had a keen interest in real estate from an early age but went the conventional route through life, ultimately getting a PhD last year.

This "Buy High, Sell Higher" philosophy is risky in my opinion, but when inventory is low and capital plentiful, there are people out there ready to take the gamble. 

He will definitely have some ideas for you if you go the conventional route. 

I plan to use conventional financing for my first deal (house hacking a 4-plex) while I go to school for my MBA, then use private money for a second 4plex and then take on investors from CA(friends and family, no soliciting ;)What are the best neighborhoods in Cincinnati for my intentions? 

Maybe there's an opening for MFRs since SFR prices are consistently going up here(at least it seems to me) since there looks to be a low amount of inventory.  

I get that they want to recoup their costs but it seems more and more that their foreclosed inventory is looked at as a profit center!

I  have missed  out on several deals because I am investing using conventional financing and cash buyers are more attractive then I am.