I am hoping we can learn some things here about how to scale.  

Hope this helps and hope things resolve soon!

I hope this recommendation helps!

For my first deal im hoping to go with a duplex and not try to get too far out infront of myself, but triplex or quadplex would be just fine as well!

Readers should seek professional advice.Thank you for your wonderful response, Ashish!

Hopefully that means my PM and I are both happy with the deal.  :-)

Readers should seek professional advice.

Hope this helps. 

They all seem very pleased and some have bought more units on O'ahu and I know others hope to buy more if the opportunity arises.

Here's the problem: They are not a sustainable asset for most to own; they are difficult and costly assets to exit through a sale; if you achieve favorable refinances, you may be able to use those funds to buy other (hopefully better assets) but are now faced with operating highly leveraged bad assets.