I currently own four units and I'm looking to scale and create partnerships.

Lately very interested in self storage.would really love to connect with someone who has established a scaled portfolio and is willing to help out a “newbie” learn and grow. 

However, if you plan on using the equity through a cash out refinance to invest in something else, this is another story - you can use leverage do buy more properties and scale you portfolio.

Basically for me the main difference has been dealing with economies of scale.

Sure everyone likes to save money by doing so yourself, but eventually, you would want to scale your business to the point where you can hire a PM to do that work for you. 

I think it really depends on how fast you want to scale.

Now how do I scale and buy another property since I already used a HELOC on my property??

Wholesaling carries less risk, but will require a lot of effort and funds to scale in most (but not all cases).In my opinion, house hacking is the best way to get started.

One issue is the challenge of qualifying, as conventional loans will have DTI requirements, income requirements, loan size limits, and loan amount limits that investors looking to scale a portfolio run into as soon as the financial freedom snowball starts rolling.

Hi im looking to scale my RE portfolio.