If the loan is large enough you can go with Fannie Mae Multifamily Scattered Sites loan. 

I'd rather have rent on time at scattered dates than to have all rents due on the first and straggling in.

The cops come they scatter like roaches. 

We lol...He has houses scattered all across the board he likes to see a lot of the his lol green pieces ...and I have maybe 5 Red hotels..

For a property with a little more complexity and scattered comps, I would use an appraiser every time.

It may be a stupid question but how come all these diamonds in the rough still scattered in Charleston.

Since as you say most investors gravitate to apartments eventually (Particularly after trying to operate ten or twelve sfr rentals scattered around) if you have the capital give yourself a head start by beginning with the end in mind.

If you have as an out of state investor 6 little houses scattered over different counties many PM companies only handle certain areas.

Then they were scattered, killed etc.

They are scattered throughout the city, with major concentrations on the east side, as well as in battered West Baltimore, where 25-year-old Freddie Gray’s death from an injury suffered in police custody triggered riots in 2015."