Can't replicate that in this current market but it taught me a couple lessons and lessened my fear of investing.

I love listening to personal development & they say you don't need to reinvent the wheel but merely "copy the right cat"*** or find people who are successful & replicate what they do.

Fast forward to today, we are shopping around for a larger home but wish to keep the above condo for ~25+ years as (i) I'm bullish on the neighborhood (as well as location within the neighborhood), (ii) the unit has a couple very unique characteristics which cannot be replicated, and (iii) I want to generally dip my toes into the investment property game and feel this is best opportunity to do so.

Those aren't relationships but trying to use agents as mules.I tell new agents all the time to ask themselves ( What is their perfect client that they would like to replicate over, and over, and over again?

Me I'm more concerned about efficiency and replicable systems that move on auto pilot so it's really ironic to me that my immediate sales and assistant staff is much more old school than what your wife is working with.For a minute I did some interviews with off site personnel to assist me but never went through with it.

From what I've learned so far, here's what I think might work well for me:Start out in my local Baltimore market, tackling one market at a time to keep my business streamlined and organized.1) Put down 30% on one complex priced at $300k. 2) Run that complex for a month or two on my own until I get a general idea of what the hell I'm getting myself into.3) Hire property management company to take over my management responsibility of the property.4) Replicate, rinse-repeat?

This type of LLC can replicate itself into multiple Series.

Or an inventory list of prior purchase to replicate.

We bought this location both to live, but also I could see the value of the location increasing over time.1 and 3 above, if it was a business, you have to keep replicating. 

Also, having a property thats cost prohibitive to replicate can obviously put upward pressures on rents. 4.