The larger the project, the fewer buyers are available, and therefore you need to be more selective in the markets you pick, before drilling down to properties and the submarkets.

So many of MFR deals are off market and appraisers aren't always educated/slick enough to figure it out if it is outside their vanilla consumer cookie cutter neighborhood appraisals.

For example, if you could show that an average 2BR unit with the same number of people consumes $100/month worth of utilities and they are consuming $800/month, their usage would be so far about of normal expectations that they could be found liable for the overage.

I found it too time-consuming with properties in several states. 

Banning smokers for bars/ resteraunts IS tyrannical, NO you DON'T have any right to mandate the bar can't choose to have a smoking section because you don't want to be around smoke, freedom means the bar has the right to choose AND you as a consumer have the free right to choose to be in that setting or go to a non-smoking bar.

I'll add finding a mentor.In regards to aggregating/consolidating units, I definitely see the advantage of having fewer units to manage and higher cash flow. 

Do whatever you can to raise awareness.Part of the problem seems to be that the conservative Landlords and citizens are leaving these states so fewer and fewer people are left to fight the fight.

That makes sense to lower the asking as if those are vacant for a year.I havent had to go through the eviction process, how time consuming is it?

Once I get the cash flow going, I plan to work my day job less and make larger, more time-consuming real estate investments.

I don't do this often, I've got one unit, and I've only rented it for 6 years, so I've only had to go through a screening process a few times.I am wondering how much you all look at debt, especially consumer debt (credit cards, persona unsecured loans), car loan debt, student loans, etc.