You think it will be passive because you are planning on hiring property managers, but that's a big cost for one property and you still have to manage the manager or your cash flow will dwindle.The way you are proposing what you want, you may get caught in a turnkey funnel and end up with less potential scale on the investment than you had hoped.

I purchase, do a light rehab and then rent it out after a year or 2 so I'm slowly scaling.

I tried % Change and I agree it would reflect the change it population better but I couldn't get the color to reflect that, I probably need to play with the scale a bit more.

As you scale, if bookkeeping isn't fun for you,consider hiring a bookkeeper for a couple hundred bucks per month.

You might as well scale up & get the largest house you can comfortably afford

I want to scale but don't know how.

This will come in handy as you begin to scale.5.

If you plan on really scaling up, you'll probably want to go with an llc.

Looking forward to making new connections. learning from others and scaling my real estate portfolio.

All good insights but you need to be getting your advice from someone that has scaled to multiple states from ZERO.