I've been interested in investing in residential single family and small multi-unit buy and hold properties for a few years but a move postponed my ability to jump in. 

If we sell, our plan is to take our time to look into getting a multi family property maybe just outside the Bay Area (it's too expensive here) so we can continue to let the money grow.

I’m not sure if I should just stick with what has worked thus far or scale into multi unites.

I'm just now starting to look at multi family and learning to run the numbers and do the due diligence.

Would anyone have any recommendations on a SEC attorney in South Dakota or one that is familiar with SD that can help us form our organization and get it set up right for raising capital to build and purchase multi family property thru syndications.

I'd like to know how to invest in multi family properties with zero money down? 

And then take those profits to some day buy a multi unit complexBit even then seeing cap rates of even 20% just seem like so little money for so much bother But I guess we each pick our own poison lol

To me it is going to most likely be next to impossible for you to do what you want to do unless you are willing to live on VERY little BUT if I was to advise someone trying to do this I would say FLIP as fast s you can until you build up enough to buy multi families Or start and run a successful business The chance of the business failing is huge.

But as we all know, they are no Multi-Family's in that price range here. 

We typically only do FHA if it is a multi-family for their first one.