The setup felt like a personal connection all in pursuit of getting your business.  90% of it was done by AI and the other 10% came when a live rep was available.

In order to get there it would be good if you could keep feeding cashflow proceeds back into acquisitions, on top of your continued W2.Speaking from experience, you can manage probably 30-50 units yourself nights and weekends before you really need to hire someone.

-- solid strategy, make sure you look at the trailing 12 months cashflow and do extensive due diligence, you might even consider hiring someone to help you with due diligenceInvesting in mobile home parks?

One key takeaway for future projects is the value of hiring professional painters.

Another "perfect storm of uncontrollable events".With both failed deals they are pointing blame on poor performance from the companies they hired to manage the property and to do the renovations, which raises a few questions:1) how can/should LPs perform due diligence on these to be hired companies?

(You're hiring the agent; why are they sharing stats that aren't theirs?)

Hiring & Onboarding: Any platforms or strategies that have helped you scale your team?

If you just hire the cheapest or first PMC you speak with and it turns into a bad experience, please don’t assume ALL PMC’s are bad and start trashing PMC’s in general.

It may be that they are underwriting the property at a significantly different valuation than what you are using or that they feel that you or the deal is excessively risky.Great advice here, and a good HML will have an account rep or someone to communicate with you through the process so that you know. 

For example, we have a minimum rent we're aiming for when we manage other properties because it's not worth it for us to manage a small property.The ideal client is someone who truly wants to be hands off and hire an expert to manage their MTR.