What’s your favorite website to find an owner, based on address, on a small scale?

What made my deal work was that the house and four-plex were located on the same lot (one purchase), they we largely remodeled shortly before the sale, it was off-market, and sellers were urgent about selling quickly.   

He cut his teeth working for a large nation wide investment firm.

I don't think they are really set up to handle separate unit owners in large condo association buildings.

There are already statutes and regulations regarding fraud and deception in real estate transactions.Educating people who want to be educated is fine, but if a governing body restricts the pool of ready and willing buyers, more properties will go to foreclosure and sit on the market longer.Real estate investors perform a vital function in every jurisdiction: putting properties back on the market, in good condition.Many of the properties they buy could never pass conventional lender's inspection because they typically require tens of thousands of dollars in repairs that most homeowners do not have or cannot do themselves.Additionally, many real estate investors near metropolitan centers can access almost an unlimited pool of funding to buy and remodel properties if the numbers work.From contract to close, the time can be in as little as 3-4 business days.The delay is mostly waiting on title companies.So when flippers mail letters and post cards to owners saying they can "close quick" and "all cash", that is a fact, not fraud.Of course, realtors will recommend you list your property – that's how they make money – so they are self-interested, which makes the report biased.Maybe next time you can have a "flipper" on you show for balanced reporting.The idea of anyone feeling "pressured" by getting a post card or flyer is ludicrous.If the homeowner doesn't want to sell, the solution is to throw them away.But the idea of "there ought to be a law" is equally ludicrous.If there are bad actors committing fraud, the answer is to enforce the laws already on the books.Out of all the properties posted for sale every 1st Tuesday of the month at the trustee's sale, a very large percentage never make it because they are bought by the very flippers you disparaged.If not for the real estate investing community, cities around the country would look much, much worse.My biggest complaint with your report is that you completely failed to get the rest of the story.Your editor needs address this."

A previous commenter suggested commercial properties, I fully support this. 30 Year / Fixed Rate is appealing yes, but it is difficult to scale.

Even those succeeding in that space at scale have to constantly push and/or pivot with growing competition, average home prices and state-specific laws surrounding brokering!

Has anyone with a large amount “good” debt like student loans and a high DTI found a way to be able to purchase a multi family house hack?

Investing is not up or down market specific, strategies are up or down market specific.Research areas can be based on cap rates, purchase prices, rents, other investors in the market, neighborhoods, crime, business growth, population growth, business journals, even some great data resources from large companies like Marcus and Millichap.

(Or in others cases, a large multi) hold for 10 years and save 100’s of thousands in taxes.