Personally, I perceive a fair amount of risk in the market.  

I live in Phx,az and recently friend of mine sold his bank (ex bank of america) literally as is and profiteed $300k  , he purchased it right out cash last year (I think) and it was in real bad shape in a shady part of town,  before him taking possession of the bank  homeless people where living inside it an using the bathroom anywhere in the building, he put maybe less than $5k in just cleaning it up and just a couple of days sold it.Basically the idea is to find super cheap homes in ****** conditions but the price is so cheap that you could still make profit by selling as is, investing as little as possible..

I am hopeful I could under bid and get it at a good deal.I would like to put an offer in, but I don't have enough cash to pay the full amount at auction.

Although in the next few years I'll be starting a family and will want a single family home, if I put in the work of finding off market / on market multifamily deal the medium term rents could be insane. 

My thought was to rather put this into a small LTR .

In fact I think real estate investors tend to have the worst risk management advice of all investors - take note the number of people suggesting that you keep holding and putting money into this project that's causing you stress. 

@Christian MattilaJake & Gino members have a meetup in South Florida.DM me and I will put you in touch with the groupGino

.): #1: How much are you putting down?  

This maybe a silly question but I feel you got to put yourself out there and not be afraid to ask questions and admit your limitations.

I’ve also been saving up a large portion of my checks to go towards a future down payment for hopefully a multi-family property to start my house hacking journey.Just wanted to put myself out there but if there was anything you would tell a future real investor what would it be and I’d appreciate any advice given, Thanks.