It just seems like an awful lot of work raising capital and figuring out a lawful way to syndicate a deal just so you can achieve economies of scale.  

While you can buy a park at 80% occupancy and fill it over time, when you are at 35% occupancy you have to get to 80% before a lender will even look at it, and you are under the gun until you achieve that.The bottom line is BE VERY CAREFUL WITH THIS DEAL.

Work with your accountant or find a good accountant who is familiar with what you need as a real estate investor and who is in line with what you want to achieve both this year and for years to come.

And for him from risking his credit to help you achieve your desire to get into multifamily.

Its NOT easy but hard work can easily achieve your goal!

The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs, and comes short again and again, because there is no effort without error and shortcoming; but who does actually strive to do the deeds; who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions; who spends himself in a worthy cause; who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who know neither victory nor defeat."

I always wondered how can I achieve that as well.

Over the past 3-4 years I have been looking for different sources of incomes to pin on to achieve mine and my wife's goal of retiring between 45-50.I have been interested in flipping properties since I worked for my dad in construction and carpentry out of high-school before landing my first true tech job on contract at Cisco.This year I started reading fairly heavy, first 3 or 4 books weren't real-estate, they were mainly self growth books, then I asked a friend of whom is currently flipping and renting properties, what books he would recommend for learning about real estate investing...

I am achieving the 1.5 DSCR through a higher downpayment so that getting approved is less of a hassle. 

You should consider visiting the forum that talks in detail how you can purchase real estate ,notes and have tax free cash flow in a Solo 401k or IRA.There are thousands of investors leasing their RE held by their retirement plan to property managers while achieving 10-12 % returns and 15%+ returns with some leverage.