When designing my business model I constantly ask myself what direction I want to go. Should you try a number of different methods and see which one works best or find one starting off and roll with it.  I find myself...

I want to create solid systems that will help with scale in the future.

For those buying properties on larger scale where they have to evaluate hundreds if not thousands a week. 

Sooooo....I have one rental and want to start scaling my real estate investing side hustle.

The idea is to find a line that could scale to best predict future houses that would join that distribution. 

You want to be able to scale into the market while it's going up, down, and sideways.

I've toured all the properties, took pics, made notes, the usual stuff and as I tried to come up with my own value I came up with a scale to consider improvements needed vs the current Zillow price.

The key concept here is that this strategy is repeatable and can be modeled and it allows the investor to build and scale a business around it, whereas with realizing gains through appreciation approach, while appreciation in and of itself IS reasonably predictable, the WHEN is most certainly not.

If you want to scale up your business, you might want to spend some of those initial profits on a full-fledged mailing with a purchased list.

What happens when you get a promotion or a new job, or break a leg (or just scale up to more properties) a year or two from now and you can no longer self-manage?