I've also noticed that there are numerous houses in my area (Arkansas) that do not have central heat/air. 

(personally not my cup of tea)There are numerous cities in the Midwest that offer a mix of yield vs return.

Hey ladies and gentlemen, I am basically ready to make the leap, have all finances in order, great team (attorney, bookkeeper,CPA, Broker, etc.) and have been looking into residential multi-families in Northern CT, and Western MA, and the more I think about it and the more 5 + units I see, the more I believe it would be smarter for me not to be "afraid" of commercial and believe it to be more advantageous to go a little bigger rather than smaller (assuming the price is right) I have spoken to numerous people, and they say "well this is your first property, so you won't be able to get a loan for any commercial",  or " stick with getting the 2-4 unit as your doing, prove that you can manage something small for 1-2 years ( I will be living their) and then go after commercial.

Numerous conversations with listsource and corelogic have been futile.

They had numerous difficulties which he's written about.   

After reading numerous books I would say the minimum you should have read is1.

I mean seriously, I have read numerous posts with you chiming in giving no real advice just simply belittling the person.

All of my properties are in Atlanta and I asked numerous times about just setting up a GA LLC, so then nothing about that would be CA-related, and they said there is no way around it, if you are living in CA, you will be taxed the $800.

I have managed numerous rentals and flip projects in past 18 years.

I have stayed with them because I was too lazy to change numerous policies.