Work well with others and I feel collaboration is always more beneficial than competition.My other job when I'm not investing and running a large-scale business is that of a wife of a police officer, mom of two awesome sons, backyard chicken farmer and city beekeeper.  

On a scale of 1 - 10 he's an 18.

We are building new construction, and its getting harder and harder to find capital on a small scale.

On my recent trip to KC, I got to relive my worst experience in the REI business, on a small scale, vicariously through a current and very real experience of another unfortunate investor.

Having managed large scale renovations for the last 5 years I have the knowledge of managing projects as well as the skill-set to put in sweat equity.

Leveraging allows you to scale your operation, but if something goes awry, you may find yourself with a lot of debt and no way of paying it back.

Talk about economies of scale!

We have set up some meetings with local contacts that introduced us to builders with full crews, supers, etc. and the necessary overhead to handle our scale.  

Although I know how JVs work on the development side, I was wondering if anyone had good advice regarding the optimal structure for a multiparty investment vehicle that was focused on acquiring and operating smaller scale assets (namely, single family homes to quads).

Starting out with a MF fourplex makes sense as a first investment, then gradually scale to larger units or complexes.