Just wondering how long it took for you you purchase your first property    For me  it started while flipping channels on dish one night and a guru make a zillion bucks overnight Infomercial was on (I didn't buy the zillionaire program)but I thought couldn't be to hard so I looked  online at property's  on land watch and afew other places .Next day  talked about it with my wife  then drove and checked out property's and had lots of phone conversations  (found that many realtors don't bother to return calls)and many of the FSBO must have gold nuggets and lots of  valuable gems scattered barely under the surface of their lots going by prices.   

Thanks for the little bits of advice scattered throughout the post.  

Sell the SFHs and invest in commercial real estate - worry about one building instead of 20 scattered about.3.

Citizen's of India are scattered into every corner of the USA.

@Dylan KatzI have properties scattered throughout the city.

Reminded me of the time I was standing with a group of people watching an orangatan dance around at the SF Zoo, and then he suddenly flung a handful of poop at the crowd and we all scattered screaming. 

My guess would be one or 2 bundles of shingles and 1 guy for 1/2 day, maybe up to a day if there are a lot of scattered repairs.

They don't scatter around **** and hope to find gold, they find a trend and then pounce it.

I thought I shared it all and another kicking little strategy was still lurking around up in my scattered brain.

With HUD you can do scattered site and the properties don't have to be contiguous, however each building must contain 5 units or more, so grouping duplexes together wouldn't work.