You want your property to be viewed by the largest buyer pool and although saving 6% in commission sounds great you would lose a large portion of motivated buyers because your property is not on their agent's radar.

Ours will be a large 1 bedroom that’s sleeps 4 near 40th and Harrison.

Because largely, they're sold to owner-occupiers!

To make a long story short a relative has given me and my wife a large sum of money as a gift and we want to use this to purchase our first Condo/home.

Some large banks like Chase will not open up bank accounts for a series LLC.  

The one salient issue that you brought up is economies of scale. 

When it comes to looking at large properties? 

So, I had to rip out the large tub with a sawzall, get rid of it, put up bead board around the wall where the tub was, all the night before listing.

LOL Russell when I got an email alert from a moderator I figured you were in here telling me to stop being such a smartass ;) ;) and yes, regardless of when the market turns if you're buying up cheap debt that will make you tons of money for the next 30 years then the next short term downcycle will be largely irrelevant.

Concentrate on large findings that should result in price reduction or a credit at closing.