I have come to the conclusion that this is a waste of time searching for deals on the open market, and that before you get into the multifamily business, you need to get educated to become credible, start a relationship building business with the players in the area, and a start a marketing business that directly reaches out to the owners of these properties - to break bread with them and share your goals.  

When I had agents that I trained up they would waste a lot of my time which Is why I got rid of them.When you get busy your time becomes worth a lot of money.

You can institute leverage into private lending with minimal risks.

Those guys are the pros...let them help you.You could also minimize grout joints to 3/16 or less.Good luck!

You can waste a lot of time and effort looking at "deals" on the MLS and finding they are usually NOT, or you're way too late...

We are all going to have typo's here, but mistakes should be minimized as much as possible on profiles.

It is a beautiful property need minimal to no repair and the bank is asking 105k.

The lender will take the worse case scenario the tenant is using for language in the contract on giving loan and terms to minimize their risk.The lease usually has a procedure in place for when the option comes available with how much rent will increase and for what amount of time 1 year,5 years etc.

I did and I realized that in my area (Boston, MA), bandit signs and yellow letters are a waste of time.

If you have nothing to sell were both wasting our time.