Joel:There are people that do that, but it is not everyone's goal.Apartments definitely have an economies of scale. 

While they advocate that they have scale of magnitude and volume, I question that statement.  

Good thing you guys are far from me - we might all become drinking buddies and not accomplish anything good ;)On a serious note...I agree with you @Jay Hinrichs: to succeed with C & D properties, you got to be hands on and since we are vertically integrated (in house construction company)...we can make it work but also if you have the economies of scale with apartment buildings.

If you’re doing all this yourself, you aren’t leveraging your team and it will be harder to scale.

Even after a business is up and running, good reputation, time in business and scale favor the established business.Jay you could write a detailed book on how you achieved success.

@Grant Rothenburger and @Brian Ellis      You know I hate to see a couple brothers going the wrong way on the scale.  

So now you scale up.8) You keep working on SEO, and you increase your PPC budget to make 3 more deals.

I have a feeling this one will be similar, just on a larger scale.

I see investors on this platform all the time talk about scaling their business quickly and having portfolios of 10, 20, 40+ rental properties.

If I didn’t have the system that I have in place, I wouldn’t be able to have scaled my real estate business the way I have.