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My goals are small multifamily to financial freedom with potential to scale to large multifamily for great success.

Mello Roos are bonds that are floated to do off and on site development and then added to the tax bill. there is also 1915 act bonds etc.. if there was not the ability to float bonds CA would never have developed as it has as the up front captial for major improvements would have been a major stumbling block..

If you look at the demographics of the city, we’re not growing but we’re rapidly changing”.Large institutional money has not found the Pittsburgh market yet.

If you added in the cash you should have to protect against contingencies, the actual return goes down (or the risk sykrockets, your choice)- If the $300K properties cashflow, definitely a better bet. 

Also 4th quarter of last year Packwood and county officially did discuss potentially regulating STR's by either limiting numbers or adding a tax to cover increases in local services that are needed. 

We had to make sure we sidestepped them and only added information to the correctly entered, active applications.

They start to diversify after got too large.

There is nothing inherently different about the process of working with Section 8 between SFH, small or large multifamily. 

And I also think that the inventory in your market plays a large role in deciding what property type makes the most sense.In my market, there is a large abundance of the small multi-family properties, especially the 2-4 unit properties.