The idea is to buy and manage some of my own properties and then scale up once I have a brokers license.

On a larger scale there is a joke that people will never cross more than 2 rivers and tunnels to go anywhere.

I work with many other investors like yourself new to the market, finding about 3-7 deals a week specific to the scale and price of project you're trying to get into. 

"I guess that is the only main anti-B class argument I have left...thanksAlexfor me personally I think the thing to do with C class is to scale if you cant get to 10 to 20 of them fairly quickly then I would skip over that asset class. even buying A class that just breaks even.. there is nothing wrong with your tenant paying off your mortage on an A class over time rents tend to go up and values tend to go up.. after a 10 year run.. many times A class out performs C class on a IRR basis which is the real metric.. there is  a reason so many CA investors that have been landlords for a decade or long are very wealthy it was not on cash flow per se at least at the start.. 

Obviously this is on a much larger scale but these homes will be taken out any time now and the city/homeowners can’t do anything to stop it.

Different story, now you've got some economy of scale going for you.

I am saving more than 10 percent of my paycheck, and plan to scale that up as I go...I am also working on my credit, actively. 

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If you don't have scale or reserves it really isn't worth it to deal with it all.

The smaller stuff might make you work more, harder, less efficiencies of scale.