I was speaking with a new RE attorney (well, not new to RE, he's been at it 30+ years, just new to me) the other day who asked if I was going to scale up to multiple projects at once to achieve economies of scale.My answer was that I would do that in year two or three.

Purchase price: $599,000 Cash invested: $60,000 FHA 3.5% down with a refinance....Personal residence which where I will rent out the entire house when I scale up eventually.

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.