I'm a big proponent of using other people's money to scale your business. 

Or when someone trips on the sidewalk in front of the house and wants to sue (currently going through that).Unless you have dozens and dozens of properties, you definitely don't have the economics of scale required for self insuring to start making sense.

You'll see much better efficiencies of scale and you can force appreciation, which you can't do with residential.I'm not sure if you can do a 1031 from one property into 4 and still defer all of the taxes.

I think I can scale faster in the depressed areas without losing my shirt and gaining a windfall in cashflow.

I am an investor from Canton, OH who would like to scale my business to generate more cash flow and accumulate more properties in addition to the wholesaling I have been doing. 

I’ve done small deals in New York basically flipping houses on a small scale and i’ve been added as an additional investor on certain rental properties around the area.

Some prefer a certain type or manufacturer, while others will price check between Lowe's, Home Depot, Lumber Liquidators, Menards, Costco, etc.Some hardware can be market dependent. 

In Texas, you can only sell or offer to sell one manufactured home per year without a license if you do not own the home.

@Jake Burgdorf I have built a platform in Podio as business scales to include property management and project management.

I wanted to start a thread in which people who have scaled or are scaling their REI business can share how they are doing it.