Building a network of agents who specialize in sourcing the deals you are looking for and other investors is an additional step you can take to get more deals!

Would building a fourplex from scratch yield favorable returns when evaluated against existing property options?

Get rid of debt, build a budget, and save.

Thank you @Sean Ross and @David Malott - Hopefully I wont need to sell this any time soon and can just let the cash flow build up.

Rather get in now, start building equity, start house-hacking, and wait for those opportunities to come your way. 

We have capital to build, but don't know whether to SFH's, small duplex's (for the college crowd) or small strip malls.  

VC firms typically do not do real estate, maybe a family office but that relationship takes a good amount of time to build and as you mentioned they will want to see experience.This is a hard question, but I ask them - what are you bringing to the table?

At the time, I had no kids and had just sold a couple of my first self-done flips in the southwest, and was really ambitious about building a homestead somewhere green.

He presented a lease purchase agreement because I would not be able to comfortably afford it with current interest rates.It's a new build (2 years old) SFH with a detached ADU above the garage.

I ask because I’d like to hire a professional to help aid and assist me in building my first one for my property?