We will continue to work with wholesalers and agents but I am really liking the ease of control and scalability with our in house deals :-)  

I have been investigating note investing and I am trying to ascertain the true scalability of the asset.If I am holding a portfolio of performing notes with an unpaid balance of $200,000.

It's fun, more lucrative than my day job, and scalable which is the most important part.Five years isn't that long anymore, but it's long enough to have a complete transformation. 

My goal is to build a scalable flipping business to build enough capital to get into buy and hold units and to automated them. 

Although my operation is very small the model is scalable.

Since this approach is so cash intensive, what are the options for scalability?

You could piece it together using those programs along with a quality data organizer like ACT and an easy to use web page creator and an aggregating system to make everything work together, all of which is not easy to do.If you are serious about developing a scalable business model and growing a RE investing business where you are selling - not holding - your active RE deals, then you are smart to begin to look at a good BMS.

But, if your goal is to build a sustainable and scalable business, this is going to take a lot of time and effort, and you can't devote that time when you're busy swinging a hammer.Here's an example of how you're losing money by doing the work yourself -- if it were going to take you 15 hours to frame a basement, I'd suggest you instead spend those 15 hours finding cheaper suppliers or negotiating with your suppliers for better prices.

This doesn't have to come from a formal business education, but if you don't have real world business experience, formal education is probably the best way to go.I have an MBA, and what I learned about finance, financial statement preparation/analysis, cash flow analysis, scalability, management, entrepreneurship, production and lots of other topics relevant to starting and running a real estate business was invaluable.Again, formal education isn't required if you can gain this knowledge through real world experience, but most people don't have that option.

I do not like the small buildings 2,3,4 units etc.The reason I do not is they are not scalable.