I’m particularly interested in strategies for scaling in the multi-family space, creative financing options, and building strong partnerships.If you’ve worked on similar deals or have insights into the best ways to grow in this industry, I’d love to hear from you.

We are deciding between hiring a property management company, finding a full time handyman or a hybrid of hiring a property management company for our bigger buildings and using a handyman contracting company for the easier ones.

In my market I have found there are under performing apartment buildings between 10-20units that have potential to increase rents and cash flow.

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Go to BUILD YOUR TEAM at the top of the screen and look for local investors or meetups in your area.

I would also recommend 1-4 units to start with because I’ve just found that to be much easier than my 5-10 unit buildings.

Point being that property you acquire 1-2 years ago is likely to be subject to deferred maintenance and capex, so their "long term" performance in rankings 1), 3) might skew poorly in year 1-2 but may pickup  after you've found and fixed all the hidden issues.I know if i did this exercise across my portfolio, the recently acquired ones wouldn't be fairly "stacked" because of all the year 1-2 cost build up from what the seller deferred, but have good chances at being future performers in years 3-5.Maybe that's why you have 2) and 5) but curious your general thoughts here are for evaluating this. 

Wishing you success as you find deals and build connections—excited to see what you achieve!

You'll be in the middle of the overall upper east side apartment market. 1 or 2 beds 1 or 2 baths in a nice and safe building.

It allowed you to get into the property, start building appreciation, lower your monthly expenses, and learn more about buying property.