Over the past 2-3 months, my buyer clients have been offering anywhere from 2k-10k on homes in the 300-500 range depending on how competitive the specific property is and how strong the other offer terms are.

The BP Brandon Turner multi family book is a good read for that... some of the content that could be useful to you is calculating your cash flow, specifically running through the various expenses an investor has and the different types of financing and the limitations of each of them.

Please advise.

Real Estate Crowdfunding: Use online platforms to pool funds from multiple investors for a specific project.

See how all this plays out before you commit yourself to erroneous processes because you advised some "mentee" to follow your lead when you hadn't yet invested the effort to learn the dance.

Specifically, there's job growth (Intel, Honda, Amazon, Nationwide, etc) and the population is growing (unlike Cleveland or Cincy).

I’m in a pretty small market so a lot of the area specific stuff doesn’t apply to me but what I do know about I’m more than happy to share.

To specifically answer your questions:1.

California has specific mold laws - I suggest you read up on themCalifornia's "Toxic Mold Protection Act of 2001" authorizes the state's Department of Health Services (now called the Department of Health Care Services) to set permissible levels of indoor mold exposure for sensitive populations (like children, or people with compromised immune systems or respiratory problems).

I have never purchased multifamily properties before and i am looking for some advise on how to get started in shopping for financing for such properties.Thanks!