I buy homes as a primary residence with 5% down and move into them keeping my previous as a rental and the area that I live doesn't have new builds that would work for us, otherwise I would buy a new build. 

Where do you live, and where are your units? 

@Chris Seveney  Good mourning Chris thank you so much for this response. what are 3 really good books I can buy for Commericial Real Estate investing (I have the millionaire Real Estate investor by Gary Keller), I've also looked at some CRE courses and I noticed some of them are asking for a bunch of money which kind of sketches me out, and about the military I was firstly thinking of  buying a 4 unit property and live in one of them then buy another a couple then with that I can buy a bigger property that's the idea I had in my mind because my father kept on telling me how CRE is only for rich people and it's risky but that's what I want too do .

For scaling your portfolio, consider house hacking another multi-family property to minimize living expenses while building equity.

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Since then I have located the area where they entered and sealed it off, however I'm having trouble killing the ones currently living in the attic.

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The alternative is to go with a single-family home, live in it for about 1.5 years, and then purchase another home while renting out the first one.

I am a wholesaler, I live in Memphis but do most of my work in Nashville as a primary market and Texas, Oklahoma, Kansas, Arizona and anywhere else I can find a deal from networking for multifamily and land.

This has been my experience and I live in an ultra-competitive market.