Option 3 can work out well in the long term as well because it is very scalable.

Hundreds and hundreds of bandit signs later, I've given up on this as a viable, scalable strategy.

After putting together a 5 year plan to reach my goals, I quickly realized the problem with scalability with SFH.

@Charles HunnewellAs @Paul Beets mentioned, it depends on your motivation.If you want to do some deals to generate some quick income, then wholesaling is a great place to start.However, if you want to build a scalable wholesale business, doing 100s of transactions per year, you will need systems.

It is not scalable without a change in charges/fees and/or our approach.Our office uses Appfolio for the day to day things like accounting and maintenance work orders.

And the numbers ARE NOT SCALABLE and DMM is anything BUT reliable.Do yourself a favor, if you want a system that truly works finding deals you do aid adverting if you need a deal now, and if you have patience you do SEO.And for Petes sake, do NOT send to absentee owners!

I also invest in multifamily (passively and actively) out of state which have proven to be much more scalable.

The problem is the market I advertise in is not scalable or I would borrow every dollar I could get my greedy hands on:>After 17 years, when I add up all the fixes to my new townhome, my ROI averages less than 1% a year.

That's not a scalable investment business as you can't be putting up drywall in the 3 different places yourself at the same time.It wasn't the lifestyle I wanted but some investors are okay with it or even thrive on it and see dealing with residential tenants as a personal challenge.

A system will make things reliable repeatable, continuous, scalable.