Higher maintenance and vacancy create less cash flow.

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Once you have a niche (this can change), start finding and analyzing deals in it.

@James DuganBased on Texas HELOC rules, your HELOC must be tied to your primary residence, so moving out could create compliance issues.

I've created a discord channel for st Louis Investors https://discord.com/invite/Xjv8rJ3Y

Once you're ready, create a goal (e.g., "I will buy at least one single-family home, duplex, triplex, or fourplex before the end of 2019") and then do it.

To scale successfully you have to get past the point where your newly increased expenditures exceed your increased revenue; past the point where your ROI allows you to “break even” on your investment, and past the point where the ROI is worth the increased risk, the increased aggravation, time, and “lifestyle” change, and past the point where you can step back from “operations” and concentrate on management.  

Because a large percentage of the charges are base fees that do not change based on use!

Then you can take them off-site yourself so you have time until the next changeover or create another option for the cleaners that they go back and finish the sheets and store them so their changeovers will be easier as well.

I book marginal candidates in between strong ones to create a scarcity mentality.