Fellow BP friends,Please educate me on how to grow from 2 to 100 1-4 family rental properties. I get bogged down around 10 in the feasibility on the financing end. I would plan to outsource management until it became ...

She actually has been investing for only about a year, but she took REI automation info that she received at another RealDeal meetup meeting and scaled it up BIG TIME!

Josh, I am more your scale (full time job, part time landord 6-10 units). 

This was my first primary residence which I decided to keep as a rental property after scaling up due to a growing family.

On a small scale I think we make the biggest differences, if the lady you spoke of came with a prospect, there is nothing to say you can't go with them to the local VFW or American Legion and see what they can do to help you help the specific vet.

We are not at the scale where we need someone full-time, but agree that having local property management is key.

In addition, small multi-family buildings are often comparable in price to a similarly sized SFR, however you get multiple income streams that are often equal to, if not greater than rent for the SFR.When you get into owning large portfolios, large multi-family buildings make sense to me to own because you can then begin to leverage economies of scale. 1 roof to fix, etc.

The Millionaire Real Estate Investor does a great job of explaining why to invest in real estate, how to get started, and how to scale up.Definitely a must read!  

To scale a valuation method would be absolutely awesome.  

As mentioned above, you could look at the financing (or even ways to increase cash flow like raising rents or self management).But the sf in some markets just lacks the economy of scale to produce strong positive cash flow of, say, a duplex, triplex or fourplex (try those numbers in your area)...