How do people scale faster?

Relying on short term appreciation or rent growth is risky. 4 years is short term.If you rely on appreciation or rent growth over a long period such as 15 years, you will virtually always get both (but the level of each is unknown).

AI will absolutely help with automation (coding suggestions, anomaly detection, faster reconciliations), but the *accountant’s job* is to translate messy reality into clean financials that won’t fall apart under scrutiny.So yeah—AI will change the workflow.

Real Talk: What Nobody Tells You About Doing More DealsMore deals do not automatically mean more success.A lot of people are chasing volume because volume looks impressive from the outside.But a bigger portfolio with weak systems, poor margins, and constant stress is not freedom.It is just a larger mess.The goal is not to collect deals like trophies.The goal is to build something durable.That means knowing which deals to pass on, which markets to avoid, and which opportunities are not worth the operational drag they create.Growth is not always healthy.Sometimes it is just faster chaos.Better deals beat more deals when the foundation is weak.Would you rather have more units or better control?

I think the buyer demand fell off a cliff in October right when we listed.We have a buy box but for us to grow (or scale) I need to move faster.

Curious whether it actually makes the early lender-matching piece faster and cleaner.

Walking the neighborhoods, seeing properties in person, getting a feel for the streets and the community — that gave us a completely different level of clarity and confidence.We were only there for two weeks, and as soon as we got back to California, we jumped right into hosting friends.

De-risk the deal earlyA lot of investors use the first-year tax savings to build reserves or pay down principal faster.

I'm now in a place to start trying to figure out how to get my first deal done by the end of 2027 (faster if possible).

But he's wrong that nobody's using AI to get there faster.