Finally, its scalable.

Now a lot of guests expect all of the conveniences and scalability of a hotel in their STR, while simultaneously expecting the personalized and custom support of an STR.I've been staying in STRs since the 90's and back then you had to bag your trash and take it with you in your car when you left. 

As you indicated doing a lot of syndications is not a scalable model. 

I have already spent a good 6-8 hours on the phone trying to coordinate with the seller, lender, appraisals, 1031 company, PM, inspection, etc. and I don't EVEN OWN THE PROPERTIES YET.Single family rentals are not scalable.

Its also scalable in finding deals.  

I have a question for full-time real estate investors who have purchased mid-size commercial properties (multi-family, office, retail, etc.)Many of us on this site are investing in single-family homes, some multi-fami...

I enjoy the scalability of owning multiple units on one property.

My biggest fear is not dreaming big enough and setting up my business to be scalable.

You'll need some of the 500k to put the deal together but it would be a much more scalable way of leveraging your money. 

I avoided starting with SFH because I wanted scalability.