This may not be a scalable option for all 9 of those markets, but once you narrow down to 2-3 it would be beneficial.  

I think Buildium is a bargain.Make sure what you have been doing for maintenance work is scalable to your new purchase.2.

I understand that positive cash flow affords many benefits such as scalability of a strategy, and some risk buffer.

It is instant.For my 6 units, it is not an issue for me to keep it straight, but clearly not very scalable. 

It is a good strategy for beginners although it is not very scalable.  

I appreciate the advice guys... this is a list of addresses and phone numbers, for scalable marketing I'm looking for email address databases - any ideas?

It's all in building efficient and scalable systems.

It would be difficult to manage the scalability of my business if I sold in slower, smaller increments like that.

But having had it for awhile now I became increasingly disenchanted with the scalability of the single family strategy.So I have systematically started studying up and teaching myself about multifamily investing and I am getting to the point where I want to start looking at potential properties and numbers to get a feel for the market.But as I started looking into it I have found it exceedingly hard to find any information about the South African multifamily market.

We believe that we can do everything else remotely (including screening based on credit checks and references), and any kind of maintenance with a good handyman, but we haven't found a scalable solution to show the property to prospective tenants when it comes time to find a new tenant.So if I had an elf, I would make him show the property, and could manage everything else remotely and save money.This raises another question: if any of you found a scalable idea to solve the above problem, please let me know.