Apartment Investing: 100 duck-sized horses or 1 horse-sized duck

[Zack Bloom]

Trying to create a metaphor here based on the popular Reddit Question: "Would you rather fight 100 duck-sized horses or 1 horse sized duck" and draw parallels to apartment vs. single family home investing. You can go with 1 upper-mid market single family home and make decent margins if you know what to look for or you can go after a 20-unit apartment and make small margins on each unit but do well if you get it a full capacity. So that's my question, would you rather go after a cheaper 20-unit that takes more selling, more maintenance, and more marketing but is an overall safer bet, or fix and rent a nice single family home but risk overpaying or having your only unit vacant too long. Let's assume hypothetically your seed capital is the same for both.