The timeline you are working with with dictate your options based on the compound growth rate required to get where you need to in time from where you are.

Prospective applicants that 'dictate' to me what I have to take pet-wise never seem to get their applications turned in completed correctly or in time before someone else submits theirs.  

They dictate minimum sizes and other specifications for dwellings.  

The answer would dictate how you would negotiate your purchase price.

Or, if the buyers are financing it themselves, see if they will give you a letter where they're acting as a hard money guy.In theory, buyers get to dictate the title company.

Obviously I can't increase my rent as the market dictates that.Would you have any ideas on how make this work or should I just move on to something else?

At some point size will dictate whether onsite management is needed. 

Economies of scale dictates the more units under the same roof the better.

I realize past history does not necessarily dictate the future but it does point to a flaw in your logic.   

And use my labor to build housing in order to rent it out and get a return, the government has NO MORAL RIGHT to dictate how much me and another free human decide what the rent for housing exchange will be.It's a disgusting immoral activity by a bunch of authoritarian pigs who think we're slaves to the government.