If stability is more your style, the home equity loan covers you.

Materially participate & rent for less than 7 days, you should be able to write it off against active income. 

You have to really understand your renovation costs and timeline when you write an offer on a fixer.

First I'm writing this review because the experience bothered me so much.

The other issue is forest fire risk plus insurers are dropping policies and most insurers won’t write policies there anymore.

Write your goals down on paper to get things done. 

You need to get in writing the delinquencies on rent.

I have a list of maybe 15 note buyers and feel that if it's not an absolute deal killer, one will accept that they get the head of the note and my loan is 100% LTV against the tail.If you have to partial first to build a note portfolio that meets minimum loan amounts for lenders, then you have an order of operations problemThe only thing I can think of here is to write in the partial sale terms that I have the right to take a loan against up to 50% of the UPB on the note and retain the full right to collateralize it for loan purposes, as if I were the sole principal.

Combine those facts and it seems logical families will opt to continue renting in the city longer in lieu of perhaps buying a starter home and they grow out of the apartment style housing units.

Take good photos and write a good description and you should be fine.