With a single family home having one vacancy means your investment is a total dud.Other benefits of commercial include no cap on the amount of financing you can obtain (residential mortgages cap at 10) and economies of scale.

Many people use mailing campaigns, cold calls, and good ol' fashioned door knocking as a way of finding deals, but that doesn't seem plausible for you.The ability to scale your operation with multifamily is incredible, but just not an option for many people.

So, on a smaller scale, people start up million dollar businesses with business starter loans.

We plan to scale up but this is our first property.  

It is a very hard business to scale.

I am seeing a lot of price reductions and it seems that initial listing prices are scaling back down a bit over the last three to four months. 

I know a lot of people prefer to manage their own properties because nobody takes care of your properties the way that you do, however I know one person can only do so much as one scales up.While I'm sure there are plenty of quality PM companies out there, most of the experiences I have heard have been rather negative such as fees incentivizing turnover and repairs being "band aid fixes" to a bigger problem.

We accepted an offer at $465 mainly because I couldn't find any solid comps to justify the top of the scale.

You can coordinate that part on your own.For automated billing, the research I've done and quotes I got say it's really only cost effective at large scale (dozens of units at one property).  

It's a different scale completely.