If you went the multi family route I would just call around and inquire on basic lending requirements and rates.

@Alan Feldman - I want to look into this route to.

My second property of June of this year was a combination of my mother-in-law providing me a loan for rehab costs and downpayment and the owner holding papers thanks to the book "Investing in Real Estate with No (and low) Money Down".I've never gone this specific route before of looking for private lending outside of immediate people I know but I'm realizing the impact this can have on my future in this business.

I quit the Craigslist route a few years ago as the applicant quality was really suspect.

If you do go the paid route, just make sure it's not some guru who's claiming to know everything and have a secret sauce, make sure it's someone who's actually also an active investor and who's values align with your own.Hope this helps! 

If you don't have your own money, you don't want to borrow money, you don't want to share profit, why are you even heading the double closing route?

First I called several HML (Hard Money Lenders) and got their terms being that I thought I was going to go that route. 

If you go tankless an option is a couple strategically placed gas units that service everyone, but then you have to consider submetering that cost (if you're allowed to use RUBS then go that route) vs putting in individual units. 

Curious to see what routes Bigger Pockets members have taken in this scenario, and how they got started...- Invest in an out-of-state apartment complex and have a property manager run it?

Lessons learned :one we were our own property management and wanted to go this route to learn the ropes and the understanding of what is involved in being your own property managementTwo Challenges are being first time property management it is more difficult than we realized and time consuming that’s where the difficulty came in as the amount of time and effort put into Did you work with any real estate professionals (agents, lenders, etc.) that you'd recommend to others?