Most passive investors end up with a larger mutifamily syndication, because it's scalable and most of them are run professionally.

Having a tenant pay x months upfront is not (as easily) scalable. 

This business generates $1-2k of cash flow per month before taxes; it will grow a little but is not very scalable.

For example, I need advice with financing of future purchases, I especially like small to medium apartment buildings, how to access the equity in my current properties for future purchases, establishing the proper holding entities, approaches to reducing costs and systems that I should have in place to allow for scalability as our business grows. 

We are looking to network with other investors and entrepreneurs to build a scalable REI business.We currently own a home and property maintenance (not management) business, Northwest Custom Yard & Home Care, LLC.

Lower end normally means more profit, but you spend an inordinate amount of time earning it, which is not scalable in my opinion.

That rule is geared towards traditional retirement assets, not real estate and financial alternatives.Your goal of purchasing 1 property per year is "scalable" growth, not compounding. 1 should eventually turn into 2. 2 should turn into 4.

***Be Systematic ***Repeatability creates scalability

Everything is batched to send out in the morning and all emails go out at the same time. hmmm ... if/when you want to bat around ideas on partitioning and distributing this load {could improve both customer/member satisfaction and scalability in the process}, I would be willing to help out.

Multiple single family homes will likely give you a better return, but larger deals will give you the benefits of scalability and ease of management.