BRRRR vs Traditional Buy and hold? How to scale?

[Hugh Carnaha]

Howdy Guys!

There's that age old debate on here on if you had $100,000 would you buy a single home or would you put 20% down payment on 5 100,000 homes. Most of these are talking about raising capital to be able to get to $100,000. 

How large does this idea scale? Is there a theoretical $$$ amount that says above or below X amount, it would be advantages to do one over the other?

If someone had a rich uncle who had 1,000,000 would there be a, "buy and apartment complex?"

Personally, my gut tells me that BRRRR is the way to go in all the stuff here in the midwest i've been running numbers on. It got me wondering about the big boys and if they played by different rules.

Cheers!