As someone who has done numerous flips and held many rentals, there are headaches with both.  

I don't really consider 1.5M a large deal, although putting up 300k is not in the cards for me at this point.My family had rental property when I was growing and I eventually took over six doors, converted them and sold them for 1.2M +I've also worked on 20M new constuction projects even though we didn't get off the ground, I learned a lot there as well.I want to structure deals so I can acquire numerous doors and use my managment skills and sweat equity for now.My brother in-law is a commercial agents who sells 18M+ multi-families all the time.

Numerous deals die because sellers either lie about liens hoping somehow they'll get away with it or they have been misled.

In addition, as an investor I have successfully completed numerous residential subdivisions acting as the owner/developer.

The problem with the house is it has numerous cracks on the interior of the house.

The foreclosure has not been finalized, the house sits empty and is destroyed by numerous breakins.

The list of those concepts is too numerous to list here.

After not being able to recruit any of the people I know and knowing I need others to keep me motivated to see this through (it's a idea I talk about, but never seem to have the motivation to just do it ) , I want to start a MeetUp/Facebook to start a local group in my area.I want it to be a group for local people to hopefully to pool together money and/or time, have almost a book group over the "The Book on Flipping House" (telling them to buy the book of course) and have way of introducing them BiggerPockets.So please tell me my idea is flawless and will lead numerous people and my self to the promise land right?

It has dramatically changed my late paying tenants to always on time tenants.There have been numerous other tips and tricks I've picked up over the past couple of months. 

There are numerous other pros/cons you can read through by searching BP for 'SFR vs Apartments' (or some variation).