Am I fooling myself?

[Lloyd Stein]

So I've been looking for a good property for a while and I've always focused on buying a fourplex, with the reasoning being that if one person moves out, I'll only be out 25% of my monthly gross until I can get a new tenant. But then I've seen some pretty good duplexes lately and I started wondering if all things being equal (price, revenue, expenses) is there any downside to owning 2 duplexes over 1 fourplex? And assume I will hire someone to manage these properties because I would live out of state.

Thanks.

Lloyd