I am currently taking advantage of the marketplace tool here on the BP website for finding foreclosures and I've come across some multi family properties in my particular area, Akron/Canton region in Ohio, that show tax lien beside them.

You are in a great area near Philly (I used to live in Bucks county!)

I'm not familiar with the multi-family market in the Coachella Valley, so not sure what kind of down payment you'd be looking at there however.

I'm trying to get better at gauging why certain properties have not been touched by buyers, and sit on the market for 9+ months.I found a multi-family listed currently listed for $57,000, that has been on the market for the last 9 months, and reduced its price by ~2% every 3-4 months.It consists of 4 units rented with $1350 total income.

In 2011 I started investing in buy and hold multi family residential properties and haven't looked back.

I'm not writing it for investors …. yet.Overview: I plan to be a full-time agent and an investor in residential single and multi-family homes.

Some types of RE (commercial or multis) are priced based on Cap rate.

Of course I can ask the old owner to sell, so long as he's friendly I'm fine buying it from him for a few hundred bucks.

Yeah doesn't make much since,seeing its a multi unit.Thought you could at least live in on unit then after a year lease the other units.

In my market #'s are fairly high and I found most multi's from a cash flow investing basis do not make sense (which is why I'm looking into investing out of state.)