Are there any current active investors in that area who can share their experience of that area and what kind of rents they are fetching?

In my experience lenders much prefer to see the income on your tax returns then from what is on a lease.2.

You would likely have to owner finance them in my experience to sell them separately. 

If you are doing section 8, there's a good guy I know of that handles that although I don't have personal experience in this space.

Does anyone have experience with this? 

You can use it for free, go to app.runcomps.org and enter your_best_friendThis only has Los Angeles/Ventura data (since that's where I work), but something similar could be built out if you have access to transaction-level data for your market

If you need anything in the Denver area please feel free to reach out!  

Therefore makes this a very easy deal (for me) to break into multi-family (learning experience).

I just feel that it will make finding a good tenant harder because they'll want a 1 year lease from my experience.

Eventually, years down the road, I would like to sell some of the properties that I have acquired to pay off other properties and own them free and clear.