Taking a hands on approach with managing your own units provides great experience and will continue to pay dividends as you scale up with the # of properties owned.

@Jake RhodesBRRRR is an incredible way to scale quick unlike turnkeys.

Multifamily is definitely the way to go but you need to educate yourself on the space.Single family is a much slower way to scale and carries a lot of risk as one bad tenant or capital expense can wipe out the cashflow and put you in the red fast.Commercial and multifamily will typically require 30%-35% down depending on the lender and the property.

The score is based on an A to F scale and is generated by looking at eight key risk indicators. 

However, the whole concept of using this strategy to scale up your IRA savings is very effective.If your IRA will be owning real property, performing rehab and using debt-financing, you definitely do not want to run that through a custodian managed IRA such as with the firm you mention.  

While I'm definitely stoked with my first purchase, I feel as if I may have to wait years in order to save up for another property, as I spent a good chunk of my funds for the 20% down.Just wanted to reach out to the community here and see if anyone ever found themselves in the position during their start, and what sorts of creative strategies you used to eventually scale your portfolio.Thanks!

But I know the scaling is faster by letting someone else do the work.  

Homes & Land Magazine has this checklist of features for customers to focus on, as well as a grading scale so they may determine which features they do or don't want in the homes they plan on buying. 

Scale back the expenses? 

How hard would it be to scale that to 6 a month?