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!

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

I FIXED THE ROOF AND CHANGED SOME DOORS THE PROPERTY WAS BROUGHT IN GOOD SHAPE !

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.

- Any tips for staying updated on regulation changes?

While I live in Idaho, I am interested and willing to expand.Fix n Flips create my cashflow so I can rent to retire.

Sorry for derailing the book conversation but I think this topic is pretty interesting especially with the way the market is changing. 

If, however, there are any gaps at all in any of the above items, even a gap so small a mouse can squeeze through, that tenant will exploit it and your life just became a 7th Level of Dante's Inferno.....:)

I just did my last one in my life for CA.