No risk, no reward.

I have started tinkering with residential real estate on the side but would be interested in your opinions if there are other starting points in real estate where I'd add more value than just buying individual SFH's as I'm doing now.

Unless you can find a commercial lender that will qualify you to purchase them with a portfolio loan, then they will need to be acquired individually.

I have done this myself to find individuals and/ or services I need.

The keyword then would be specific to the individual property).Most of the popular text marketing platforms integrate with Zapier, which can then send the texts' information to Google Sheets.

If you were licensed, then you can only give referral fees to other licensed individuals.

I am an IT professional and I am not looking to replace my day job, but I am hoping to increase my knowledge and find like-minded individuals in my area that I could possibly work with on some projects. 

I'm from Bluffton myself... always looking to connect with other like-minded individuals, so shoot me a line sometime!

I will need to convince myself that I can manage the risk/reward properly vs. just vetting a turn key in a good market and letting it ride (if the returns are in the same ballpark, it wouldn't be worth it. 

By focusing on the student market, I'll have the ability to rent entire units to pre-determined groups, or rent on a per room basis with individual students.