Get boots on the ground and break bread with the players doing business there. 

But at any rate I'm hoping by next year that I'll be able to hit 100 rentals, then I'll consider pivoting to larger apartments however with as profitable as SFD & small multi-families have been, I might just hire some people to help me manage and keep buying more.

I recently spoke to some commercial brokers who were receiving flat commissions ($100-$200k) from institutional players to sell large commercial property deals instead of the 3-5% commission that I see for $5-$10m dollar deal size that I typically look at.Can any institutional investors on BP speak to that? 

Corelogic has the smallest market cap of the entire group.These are the big billion dollar players, but these providers, and all the other providers, get their data from the same place, in much the same manner.

It takes a good bit of effort to get a job quoted and most management companies have a pretty high repair limit before they are wiling to do so.Many charge some type of fee to exit the management agreement.I'm sure there are some honest players that do their best for their property owners but I would not want to commit to a business relationship where there were so many counter-incentives for my manager. 

Most of the developers I know myself included ( and again just my small circle) I have never seen any of them put a syndication together to fund these.Few reasons  as stated no cash flow.. returns are FAR higher than most apartment deals by a LONG shot.. so you can attract bigger money players and you don't have to go after that 50 to 100k investor.. you go after that 500k to a couple million or more investor.. and usually only one or two money partners so no need for all the brain drain of a syndication and SEC stuff and risk on the operator side..

The labor usually gets paid on those shows, but many times the input players are acting for free (publicity and excitement of TV) and many materials are donated.

Most importantly you need to convey confidence and assurance you are a player and not just wasting their time.

So, again, maybe you pivot and readjust.  

I'm in the process of meeting other players and assembling my team.