You need to put as much as you can into that mortgage or your accounts as fast as you can so you can scale faster.

Lastly, do not rule out 3 or 4 family homes as there is usually a greater return (think economies of scale).

Some have been on the market a long time simply because homeowners are aging and want to scale down to something more manageable.

You're not seeing the same efficiencies of scale they are, so it may not make sense for you, even at that level.If you were to hire a PM company, you'd likely pay ~8%.

You're caught with higher per-unit costs and don't really start to see the efficiencies of scale like with bigger properties.Personally, I don't like either, but a lot investors do well with them.

Once I get pretty scaled away, I don't see myself providing 50 lawn mowers for 50 properties in the future. 

Hi @Jason Xue,I haven't scaled quite to a 30-unit yet, but on a smaller 6-unit I was able to go in and perform $4K of cosmetic updates per unit, which justified rent increases.

Was looking for something larger than a 4 unit to try to build some scale How did you find this deal and how did you negotiate it?

But yeah it certainly is easy to get excited about the cash flow I'm creating and want to scale too quickly.

which could be you, your family, your team, your bank account.The cost of scaling an effective property management business is often significantly underestimated.