I’d like to scale and continue to buy and flip or buy and hold more single family properties or even multi-family properties.

I'm looking for an agent that is not only experienced and knowledgeable with small multi-family apartments (4 units or less) but who also has their own portfolio of multi-family apartments in Madison.

In 5 years I’d like to own 3-5 multi family homes or 2-4 unit properties.

It's 2018... days of damaged roofs due to solar installs are long gone (unless you have a ceramic tile roof or something that easily breaks when stepped on)You can easily reduce your power bill down to just the utility's basic charge, typically 5-10 bucks per month.

https://www.har.com/content/newsroom/Highlights: Single-family home sales rose 5.3 percent year-over-year, with 5,260 units sold;Days on Market (DOM) for single-family homes decreased slightly from 67 days in February 2017 to 65 days this February;Total property sales increased 3.1 percent with 6,375 units sold;Total dollar volume climbed 4.5 percent to $1.7 billion;The single-family home median price rose 1.4 percent to $226,200, which represents a February high;The single-family home average price edged up 0.4 percent to a February high of $281,945;Single-family homes months of inventory shrank year-over-year from a 3.4-months supply to 3.2 months;Townhome/condominium sales fell 5.1 percent, with the average price up 2.0 percent to $210,887 and the median price up 4.6 percent to $170,000;Leases of single-family homes fell 11.5 percent with the average rent up 4.1 percent to $1,720;Volume of townhome/condominium leases dropped 11.5 percent with average rent up 2.2 percent to $1,515.

Can someone give me some guidance about what happens after the 1031 exchange is completed and you subsequently sell the house?  In this case, I sold one home and exchanged it for 8.  I am now thinking about selling on...

Do you currently have any experience with multi-unit rentals? 

I had about 100 feet of fence taken down and  about 40 feet reinstalled in a different location on the lot (tying in to the fence at the back of the property) for a few hundred bucks last year.

This can be pulled as both absentee or owner occupied, with criteria such as home value, single/multi, owner age, equity, purchase date. 

@Matthew Ray, I've only ever done buy and hold, and only with multi-family.