And how the can or cannot impact how fast they can scale their portfolio.

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I decided it would be too hard to scale if I’m fooling around with locks.

@Travis Timmons mentioned the live in flip, that's a better option if you need to recycle the money to scale. 

If you're not looking to invest in anything C- or lower on the neighborhood grading scale, then you can pretty much cut out anything on the East-side that is in Cleveland.

I don't charge differently for different sizes because I don't want to be showing up in a scale to determine if the pet is over or under the weight threshold.

Only way around it is a cost segregation study which most investors rarely do for residential RE on a small scale. 

What are some things I should consider with this deal that will help me scale my portfolio in the next few years?

I don't recommend it for small scale.

on the PM side and what they charge I would have a sliding scale. just like some of my clients that own big class B  MF  they pay 4% and an onsite manager is the employee.