As far as why it takes time to scale - the most common slow down I see is the time it takes to find the next property that checks all of the boxes to be a successful BRRR with numbers that will work. 

Most of the advice I'm seeing online focuses on apartment buildings but I'm not attracted to raising rent as a strategy and managing tenants & toilets as a job.

I am not planning on quitting my day job anytime soon but rather my hope is to gradually grow the amount of income I am able to bring in over the next 5 years to be in a position to make Real Estate my full time gig. 

Made poor choice in hiring first painter and the expense of labor and supplies - unable to complete job satisfactorily which will lead to a redo.

I just quit my job as a teacher and am building my real estate business... since I no longer have a W-2 job, I most likely will need to use a hard money lender, correct? 

My wife and I don't have jobs and we do our own PM.

That cost is highly dependent on whether you're pulling permits and doing plans with full engineering, or just common sense building without permits, of course.

This should be obvious and should be common sense.I do not blame you guys for doing these methods...

Which is ok because you have a regular job and a couple of properties. 

its incremental depending on your renters our area is more concred with leed 140 compliance in buildings so i dont buy anything older than 1985 without a budget to convert the property. currently we have 100% occupancy in a high income area so having these amenities is critial for new buildings without enough Power for in Garage Car charging people with jobs and new Teslas wont rent. https://www.globest.com/2021/0...