The numbers could make sense if you do STR, but it's still tough because the pricing for multis is high and the long-term rental return isn't that great.

Your current numbers make no sense (600K property at 70% is 180K down and 420K financed, but four 300K properties at 95% is 60K down and 1.14M financed).The odds of finding someone to loan 95% on four investment properties is extremely slim.

Prices may continue to drop in 2025 and even in 2026, but buy deals today if they cash flow and make sense. don't wait to time the market.

Yes, that makes perfect sense, especially in such a large transaction to find the replacement property.

Hopefully this makes sense, but sounds like you are got caught in an assessment when you purchased.

This made sense to me at the time as I wanted to not only invest in myself, but also him and his team. 

Our economy hasn't made sense for four years.

It's a tool and should be used for the right property in the right area where it makes sense. 

The seller becomes the bank and pays capital gains one time on the downpayment (which keeps it low to make sense for them) and then also monthly on the payments (also incentivized to just match how much he wants a month).

It just didn't make sense to me.