Loans we can disposition in line with our capital constraints, knowledge and skill efficiently.   

I do spend a little more on energy efficient products as a better insulated and sealed house will have less damage, cost less on utilities, be more comfortable and make products last longer as well.

The importance of your calculated critical mass or critical point is that your are able to focus on a task ahead of other task that will make use of resources (time, knowledge acquisition, money) the optimum and most efficient way.2.

I'm trying my best to take advantage of VA loans since I'm active duty but want to get some investors involved to move a little faster and more efficiently. 

I am considering buying a motel to convert into efficiency apartments.

As your probably aware I was one of the first HML into the space early 2000.. so I dealt with a lot of the guys that never made it through.. or were pump and dump outfits.And I can categorically say that this version of TK operators post about 2010.. are night and day more efficient transparent etc than there predecessors who as you state are gone or slightly underground.Were I see some disconnect or negative feedback on TK when it relates to BP is generally someone who has bought through a buying service and the buying service did not really Vette the provider well enough.. we saw that with one company and a Birmingham incident..

I got a taste of real estate 5 years ago when I bought my house 3/2 and made the garage into a studio or as we call it here in Florida an efficiency, I've been enjoying the benefits of house hacking.  

It may include doing physical upgrades to get higher rents, bringing in new management to run the property more efficiently or filling vacant units with paying tenants.

I would be doing this 1x/month, so therefore I need to be efficient with my $.Thanks in advance for any feedback!

I think you need to do it with the efficiencies that come with scale.