Team or Deal which is first

[Brian Plajer]

I have a few rental properties and have listened to hundreds of podcasts. I'm ready to scale up into multifamily preferably something small 8-15 units so I can learn the ropes before going bigger.  I'll need at least one partner and would like to build a team  for the larger  future purchase. The question is, how do you build the team before you have the experience/ deal? If you're able to get  a deal before building a  team it's probably too late to build the team as the time crunch is on. Curious what more experienced investors have done