I'm open to any advice and would love to connect with people here to build a solid team and eventually scale. 

The city recently inspected the property and determined that a converted garage was poorly constructed.

I think I want to start off with house hacking and eventually get into fix and flips.

Any thoughts on best practices for converting equity in property into cashflow.

While the landlord defined the dwelling unit as his single-family home; the court, after analyzing the statutory definitions of the term, the determined that the dwelling unit at issue was the separate room being rented to the tenant.[2] As a result, the landlord had converted his single unit dwelling into a multi-unit dwelling that was subject to Oakland’s Rent Adjustment Program since the individual rooms were not alienable separate from the title to any other dwelling unit.Under the court’s decision, tenants in Oakland renting rooms in a single-family home or a condominium are entitled to the protections provided by Oakland’s Rent Adjustment Program.

Eventually, they moved forward without issues...but it’s a gamble.

I figured I’ll get to that point eventually, once my portfolio hopefully grows a little larger.

I'm working on building mine with the hopes of eventually dumping my current property manager and curious to hear from others:1.

Yes, eventually we want to buy more rentals (not back to back, but within the next 5-10yrs).

This trait is the motor, the engine on HOW that 'fuel" is converted to forward motion.