@Bruce Lynngood post and great perspective. i think people underestimate the level of distress they need to engage with to truly BRRRR.to your point - if you can a 250K house, put 50K in, and end up with a 350K house - that's GREAT. 

The question of this post was: how do people scale so quickly, which is what I tried to answer on a conceptual level. 

Second, it's possible to start with $50k, even nowadays but it's really up to your comfort level.

It’s a lot of labor, but low material cost.

To help our customers, we took revenue management to a whole new level with Predictive Revenue – unlike anything else in the industry.

There's plenty of low money no money things you can do like wholesale, FHA financing, 100% financing loans but all of those end up being expensive in the end.

We have seen properties benefit from a study with a purchase price as low as $150,000.

I am a little stunned; I’ve never dealt with fraud at this level in my world of managing C- apartment buildings.

And if cash flow is a big goal, then get set up with a few short term rentals in a low cost area with decent numbers.

Some believe that is the biggest problem with low numbers and hosts feeling like STR is a dying strategy, they never did understand the market they were buying into.