You can grow a business into a sellable asset, but anyone who has ever sold a business will tell you that is not easy and takes a long time.

It wasn't a good deal $90k because of the age, weird layout, and the bathroom was tiny. 

Credit scores are a reflection of someone's ability to learning and understanding the rules of the game and haveing the discipline to play by them.If you already have good credit, already pay everything on time (autopay), then increaseing your limits will probably help you the most, because it gets your utilization down, ideally under 10%.Higher hanging fruits are average credit and account age (just have to wait for that I guess) and inquiries, which are sometimes unavoidable as real estate investors.  

Also, if you goal is to continue scaling, a real estate CPA could be a great resource for accounting and tools like DSCR loans can help your grow quickly, especially for cash-flowing properties. 

It would totally help me ramp up my portfolio and grow much faster if I could put 3.5-5% down as opposed to 20%.

Gold has value for many reasons, it is useful and (kinda) rare and for ages everyone has decided that it has value.

I'm also growing a network of potential partners and investors, and will likely turn to them if that ceiling continues proving to be problematic - and will do so for larger properties even if I'm able to break through the ceiling on my own.

This frees you to focus on higher-value tasks like growing your portfolio, owner communication, and big-picture strategy.2.Adopt a Portfolio Management Structure: Early on, I ran a departmental structure (separate teams for maintenance, leasing, collections, etc.), and it caused inefficiencies and communication breakdowns.

Property management is the foundation of successful real estate investment - so it has been a great way to grow my real estate career.

They are not able to assign a value to things like roof age.