I am out of that area now but have tons of contacts there depending on the scale of jobs you have. 

They practically felt indignant for being asked for another discount after first giving me a large discount to the original asking price.

Would I be able to scale with so many properties under my name?

Interesting point about large dogs maturing more slowly.

Hello All (Experienced Multifamily investors in particular) I am a buy and hold single family investor (so far) on a scale up mode, I am close to buying small multifamily in Chicago suburbs, I have a couple of deals under consideration. 

I gave my contractor a deposit in December and final payment in January for a large structural repair job on a property that is partially personal (I live in one room) and partially business (my LLC) as a vacation rental.Now I need to send him a 1099 and send the IRS a 1096 (late on both of these, I recently found out), and figure out which tax year to apply the payments. 

250k won't get you far in apartments but if you're looking to a grow a biz, start small, fail small, fail forward and scale from there.

As I continue to analyze properties, it seems that the expenses are eating up a large portion of the cashflow, especially when utilities aren't separated. 

If your deal underwriting is conservative enough such that the numbers are gonna provide you a fairly large margin anyway, the one-time cost of going to/from your destination should not make or break your numbers.

It makes good income on a dollar/hour basis, and I have incredible control of my schedule, spend time with my family, etc... but it isn't very scale-able, at least not with favorable profit margins.