While some people like to pay cash for the stability, it limits your scalability and tax benefits while most of us would prefer to let someone else payoff our loans and make us rich.

It isn't exactly a scalable way to grow your business, though.If you do that (save up and buy investment property) things start getting difficult on mortgages 5+.  25% down and higher interest rates are common with investment loans. 

This isn't scalable, because we can only have one FHA loan at time, and we have to live in one of the units for 12 months.

It was a very tough journey.....but it was exciting and much more scalable than landlording (not that there is anything wrong with being a landlord - but after 20 years, Id had enough!)

Yea, the more i think about it......big difference in time commitment, marketing, scalability.....Trying to think through a month of my life as a vbro business owner.....would all that time be worth it ?  

I have been listening to Podcast #26; Building a Scalable Real Estate Investing Business.

On the topic of scalability, you are certainly discovering the weal links in the chain. 

4) Net $7k a month by 2042.I'm looking to learn more about creative financing, raising capital, commercial financing, and how to build/run a scalable business.

The consolidated management costs and the scalability are far better than purchasing single family homes when your end goal is cash flow (think of all the Six Sigma wastes you eliminate by consolidating everything for 30 units worth of income into a single transaction). 

very specific targeted ads supply all my leads, end up paying around $2/4 per warm/hot leadedit: I also get around 1-2 leads via my website per month, those are all over the place though and not really scalable.