One thing I know, if you can break into the San Diego market, you've increased your scale and potential for ROI. 

From an operational perspective you'll get much better economy of scales with the larger property from staffing (as you alluded) and from purchasing.

I own 9 units so far that I purchased traditionally- but now I want to try and scale fast.

A vinyl U Channel is stapled to the underside of the outside wall that the sheet (cut to size - 1" below grade and 1/2" below lower wall.

I have seen a room built that simply took in an existing above grade window and built a closet which worked fine in a basement and it was not permitted (permit not pulled), the sheetrock had to be cut for an electrical inspection, it passed, it was approved with some money.

The investment has to have the scale and size to stand on it's own infrastructure without my daily involvements or filling in under emergency situations while still meeting my profit goals.

I've been doing smaller scale mailings (~500) myself, but I believe my value lies in things other than stuffing and licking envelopes.

Hiring an employee to handle all these kinds of day-to-day tasks is the best way to provide you the extra time necessary to scale your business.Think about it: The types of tasks you're talking about are the types of tasks you can pay someone $10-15 per hour to do -- should you be doing $10-15 per hour tasks yourself?

Web masters like Josh may struggle to keep enough servers going to keep sites like bigger pockets scaling up with the growth.

I started asking questions about the grading on the back side of the buildings, areas only accessible on foot and the mud was a little over ankle deep.