But make sure to include the income from your son's rent.  2) When talking to the lender, ask again about the debt to income ratio but this time include the potential rents from a single family residence (SFR), a duplex, a triplex, and a fourplex. 

Single family residential homes/apartments are still going extremely fast. 

The local buyer market up here is tough, most of our investors are looking for suburbs and single family but the Syracuse market is saturated with dilapidated multi family homes.

, but should I start with single family homes before I jump to those?

You still get high cash flow but you don't have to go through an all out war every single day.

As long as it's single family, you should be able to use a conventional lender.

I'm new to investing (single family & multi family homes) I'm looking for contacts in the Tri State area!

In the most recent past, the Reg A+ REITs from Fundrise and RealtyMogul have had yields in the higher single digits, while according to Investopedia, ETF REITs have had yields in the lower single digits.

Hi,I am about to become a first time landlord and was hoping someone could shed some light on what type of insurance I should be looking into for renting out a single family home.

In many real estate markets multi family price per square foot is lower than attatched single family price per square foot.