Is Commercial and Multifamily Expected Return/ROI generally higher than Single Family?
I'd think the obvious answer would be yes. But I want to get general confirmation from other people.

I'd think that because the amount of cash required, and thus the barriers to entry, are so much higher that you generally have less competition for commerical and large multifamily properties. Single family anyone with a few hundred in grand in the bank can apply for a loan; aka almost anyone can do it with a decent income, a little saving, and planning. 

While larger properties are much more complex deals, harder for one person to thoroughly do all the work and forethought, and obviously a very limited amount of people have +15 million dollars lying around. Instead it is more businesses and institutions playing the game. 

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[{"id": "eez14ep", "text": "Yes ; with out knowing area, hard to give a direct answer though. \n\nUnless you\u2019re around a military base , your ROE will be much better with multi family, (which is a lot less riskier then commercial) we will always need a place to live. But commercial can be lucrative ", "replies": [], "depth": 1}, {"id": "eezpam5", "text": "It's also a lot harder to manage a portfolio of single-family homes than one apartment building.", "replies": [], "depth": 1}, {"id": "ef44qcc", "text": "Economies of scale -- with more and diverse units in an apartment, risk, and expenses are distributed. With an SFR, one vacancy can be catastrophic, but in an apartment, even down to 4 or 5 units, it's not much of an issue.  \n\n\nFor the acquisition side, syndicating capital from investors is how many people get in the game. Couple that with low cost-agency debt and the capital needed to get into large deals is minimized.. down to 1-3% many times. Of course you are sharing ownership with Limited Partner investors, and you are operating, hopefully with professional 3rd party management, as the general partner/asset manager for a piece of the ownership and some fees for your work helping those investors achieve solid risk-adjusted returns.", "replies": [], "depth": 1}, {"id": "ef5f11c", "text": "commercial is way better than residential.  there is a reason why wealthy people don't buy a bunch of houses to rent out.\n\n&amp;#x200B;", "replies": [], "depth": 1}]