Can or should I use it to negotiate a better price or is it to only scale the sellers motivation?

He gets the benefits of scale and does not need to lear on the job as much. 

I would look for cash flowing properties in the market that I’m investing in.Or I would just scale my portfolio into a much larger units or properties.

Then scale up to allow the business to run itself and allow my wife and I to travel with our kids to see this great country.

@Travis White,If you're interested in building and scaling a profitable business I can give you a few things to check out. 

Leverage allows you to scale faster while your tenants pay down the remaining balance.

It works for me because I'm small scale. 

I am not looking to scale my business into a huge operation or anything like that at this point.

There is less liability than going full scale into real estate investing.By pooling all of my income streams together into one "fund", I can purchase mortgages in bulk, which gives me access to wholesale pricing.I have the money to start out with performing notes so my risk should end up being a bit lower than starting out with non-performing notes. 

He is awesome and I would love to keep him with me for the long term, particularly as I scale up to doing more ambitious/complex projects.