I can only say that we lost the steel industry many years ago and my community never has recovered from that, if we loose the auto industry, you might as well stick a fork in Ohio and many other states, because it really is our last manufacturing base.

Called the same lender and had a lengthy conversation about scaling up and etc. and requested a prequal letter. 

The host pulls out all the stops and makes sure the guest has a great experience, but the host does nearly everything themselves and never looks to scale.3) The 'drag and drop' investor - Looks at Airbnb solely through the lense of generating cash flow and scales the portfolio through a management company and using the same Amazon products at all the rentals.

I have done what you describe,  but on a smaller scale. 

Awesome story, Bobby, sounds like you've been able to take advantage of 1031 exchanges and scaling up.

Looking forward to making new connections. learning from others and scaling my real estate portfolio.

Ideal target is multifamily (scale to be determined), but we're open to other property types as well.  

Initially our tenant will be living above us, so this won't necessarily be an issue at first, but we'd like to setup a system now that scales as we purchase future properties.After doing some research on where to keep funds, it looks like the common response is to either keep them in either an interest-bearing savings account, checking account, CD, etc. and largely to keep the funds liquid, so you can access them on demand. 

There is also still a decent small specialty manufacturing base that is not going away due to 2nd or 3rd generation owners who grew up here. 

It just seems that majority, if not all of the highly successful individuals in the RE game, ended up partnering up with folks to scale up their business.