As you scale up, consider efficient property management through a company, to keep your properties well-maintained and tenants satisfied.

Prior to investing where you did in Indianapolis, were you able to visit the market first or did you go based off of neighborhood graded maps and opinions from agents/property managers.

It's a change but as you mentioned you don't want to down grade the property to a single family, but maintain the 2-family designation.

You want to ensure you get your feet wet on a smaller scale if you do it on your own or find a good partner to "hold your hand" in the first deal.

I thought the same thing and scaled up rather quickly to 300 units in deep south 95% section 8 after about 18 months I realized I bought myself a job that was simply not worth it..

so much private land has been logged and replanted since then.. in those days we would buy a 40 lets say for 150k  take 200k of timber off of it then sell the land on contract for same price then hypothicate the note to pull out more cash rinse repeat.. we also would use our logging roads and staging areas stratigically so when we left the roads were in the right place to do a 4 way lot split and the landings/stagging areas became the building pads.. in the NW permits for logging are not tough.. in those days it was over the counter and there was nothing you needed to do with regard to excavation.. however if I just bought the land and wanted to put in roads and pads then I would have had to get a grading permit and all the survey and engineering that went with it.. its was really something how we did that.. and I miss it to this day.. the other item that made it so profitable was Japan was paying premium for Export quality doug fir logs.. you could get double or more for export logs.

I am trying to scale up my portfolio.  

That can literally be like 50 bucks - and that is not up to youInvesting in section 8 usually means C-D class areas - Higher risk, higher turnover, higher chance of evictions, higher chance of property damage, behind on rent etc.Instead of buying a 20 unit, maybe considering scaling down and investing in a solid area. 

Their system is great and will definitely be good to use as you scale up.

While starting off you should be able to handle your own bookkeeping initially until you start to scale.