Build a large portfolio of SFR or just buy an apartment complex?

[Jonathan Studdard]

I have liquid capital coming my way of which I'd like to put about $100,000 to work. Is this amount realistic to be considering buying an apartment complex? I want to leverage other people's money through REI, and am weighing strategies. Building a portfolio of single family residences seems like a long, tedious process of marketing to find off-market properties, BRRRR, supplemental creative finance, etc.

Can anyone with experience acquiring an apartment complex share some numbers from the deal? Anyone have a large SFR rental portfolio that wishes they would have just bought an apartment complex from the start or vice-versa? Why?