Hi, Anjoli if you could provide more numbers to give an educated input on potential scenarios...

Considering this is your first purchase as well as investment, there is a lot of 'hand holding' and education that will cost time and dedication, to have the same 2-3 agents compete for the same sale, shopping the same MLS inventory, and still dedicate as efforts to one client would be completely unfair. 

I am trying to decide whether to buy a 1-4 unit or a 5+ unit as my next purchase, but I am just starting to educate myself about these slightly larger buildings. 

I joined BiggerPockets to educate myself and to start building my team of PM's, brokers/agents, lenders, contractors and wholesalers.

I will continue to do my wholesale activities but wanted to reach out and see if there was anyway too expedite my in the field education.

I'd use some for education on REI.

Then I took bits and pieces from feedback I read on this forum, I also read a few books, watched some Youtube videos and between the self-education and the experience I slowly became very knowledgable about it.It's a low margin business but I am good at it and I now offer my clients property management, brokerage and construction project management so we can literally help a client buy a house, manage the rebab and then manage the property (and we have done this for some clients).

I've been an education hound, analyzer, excuse maker for too long.My stretch goal for these 3 years is 30 properties. 

Is there recommendations on books to help me educate myself in real estate?

From the time Hawaii was identified as a strong possibility I began market research ( I did live in Hawaii for four years prior so it is not a completely new area for me), educating myself on marketing, building a real estate business, generating leads, the top brokers and agents in the area, successful business models and was to track leads.