Initially, the boomers were the stimulus of economic expansion:•1950s -- parents buy new houses and cars, suburbs emerge, and America is King of Production•1960s -- more housing, more cars, college educations, Made in Japan = cheap, Vietnam, shaken values, Johnson's "War on Poverty"•1970's -- the Boomers emerge with jobs, are new consumers -- more housing, international manufacturing becomes more competitive, US corporations locate operations overseas•1980s -- Reagan tax cuts = increased discretionary spending, revenues up, social programs funded, Iron Curtain falls, technology enables global expansion•1990s -- peak Boomer earnings, corporate America dissolves pensions (funding liabilities, regulatory liabilities, increasing PBGIC premiums) and convince Boomers to "control" their retirement with self-directed 401(k)'s, Moore's Law at work in technology, the Internet becomes hostile to profits, emergence of private equity and venture capital on a large scale, increased financial engineering•2000s -- oops, where did the American Dream go?

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

If demand for products continue to go down, but costs to produce go up, manufacturers will go out of business, reducing supply.

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?

At this point, my reserves will be pretty much wiped out for the time being, but we'll be cash flowing nearly 3k gross per month without mortgages, and looking to scale further.As I'm now into this journey to financial freedom, I'm asking the experts for opinions on what's next. 

By driving for hours on end and street by street I rank each square of my map on a scale of 1-10.  

Do you know of any resources I can use to scale those costs?

It's important to develop a corporate mindset on all issues eary on, so you as you grow you are not scaling up with poor business practices.

The pre-manufactured home I have in mind is going to be built to my local code before it ships, so I'm not concerned about the building itself.Outside of my underground MEP connections, are there any others that I must have besides my general building permit?

Downward markets. less equity, but if you have lots of cash flow you can buy up empty boxes on the cheap. for buy hold investors it would seem if you are not selling, a crash would be a great opportunity to scale if you are well balanced with great cash flow.