I'm based in the San Francisco Bay Area and am in the early stages of my real estate investing journey.

I’m still in the early stages, but I’ve been soaking up as much information as I can from Bigger Pockets, and it’s been incredibly helpful.

Make sure you have professional photos and your staging/decor is top notch2.

I will try to post one of these every now and then for analysis purposes.

If your purchase price (always the largest expense) plus the rehab estimate (the second largest) total no more than 70% of the ARV, the remaining 30% must cover your HML charges, agent commission, property and hazard insurance, property taxes, title insurance, escrow, staging, all else, and your profit.

I'm already looking at listings and doing deal analysis (or at least practicing at it).

Demand, quality of tenants, etc.According to my analysis should give a 12% CoC return but this is my first commercial property purchase just like some insight or if I should pursue other forms of commercial real estate. 

Therefore if you purchase in say September, your current years tax bill will be based on the current years value which may be even lower than what you can achieve with the exemption and on investments the value will be updated according to your ATI and will not be reassessed by the county for five years as well as once it is, the increase is capped to a 15% increase in value which is not common and can be appealed which is less often than many other states.Yes, the effective tax rate comes out to a difference of say 0.5% on personal residence to 3.0% on investments, but I would say handling it the right way up front and budgeting for it in your analysis is better than risking it another way.

Rather, we use a 2-point bump in our exit cap rate with realistic/conservative rent appreciation and occupancy based upon both our internal projections and a thorough market analysis.

Depending on which article you read, there's between $26B and $30B under construction and in late planning stages in the metro area.