Hello, I am a Firefighter/Paramedic/RN that is interested in real estate investing on a small scale to start.

I save PAW scale (Millionaire Next Door, for those not familiar).My Fail-Proof Plan for Early Retirement: 1.

The State rates schools on a scale of 1 - 10 with 10 being best.  

If you KNOW you have to step on the scale at Weight Watchers on Monday, you can walk right past the donuts.SO... in my opinion, what some of the guru programs don't have is accountability.  

Good luck in the scaling journey :) 

It's not the best scale to go by, but I'm fairly humble and have decided to use it as my barometer. 

Something I think people need to do in order to scale if they want to self manage their own properties.I've only been using the system on 4 properties now, however feel comfortable scaling up several multiples which I plan to do in the next 4-5 years.  

I think they were overpaying for some services as they built up the portfolio, but once they stabilized the portfolio (aand got better economy of scale) their numbers (e.g. administration, management, etc.) seemed to approach "normal".

My niche is in developing non-recourse capital platforms that propel entities and investors to larger scale markets without future debt service.

We never made a single deal, since all we wanted to do mainly was retail shopping centers and large scale multi-family.