I have used this system my entire career to start and scale 12 different companies very quickly. there are three books you should read in this order The New One Minute Manager, Putting the One Minute Manager to work and Leadership and the One Minute Manager.

But you forget there are people that do this on a bigger scale...

We are getting married in July so I wanted to utilize low rates & down payment by having her get a property mortgage in her name.In my next move to scale, I am curious it would be possible to partner with a lifelong friend to secure a conventional loan.

I hope you are able to scale this as you plan.

Large scale reconstruction is another, and more likely, scenario.

If you want to be hands-on, build a team, use employees instead of vendors, scale something big and have a sizeable tolerance for risk you can be a bit more aggressive with the location. 

If you want to scale buy as an llc and gt as many as you want. 

You don't have the local understanding to be able really to negotiate with the local guys that might call and unless you're doing it on a really really mass scale, regaining your marketing investment will be tough. 

Generating capital to help scale my rental property acquisition.

Single family is very difficult to scale as you have experienced.