Olus your buy box as you mentioned.  

I would generally agree with the other posts from @Jonathan Greene, @Drew Sygit, and @Danny Gonzalez, and @Caleb Brown, but something I think would be helpful for you would be to share the profile of a type of property, price point, and the amount of rehab you're willing to do (given your mention of S8 properties) that you are interested in acquiring.

I seem to recall a prior post where you mentioned Grand as your southern border, so what's your western border?

As mentioned earlier, I’d never expect appreciation and only go for cash flow on the multi family.

Hi Ryan, like @Nathan Gesner mentioned, it's important to be selective when choosing people to partner with. 

However, this introduces a level of risk to the equation because now, as has been mentioned, instead of going to $0, you could end up negative big time! 

I don't know much about Hamas or Hezbollah that you mention.

Not to mention, these agents provide incredible valuable by providing me real time market intel on buyers tendencies, want's and needs which is important, especially when you are developing for-sale housing.

You mentioned that if I create an LLC in AL, I don't need to create a foreign LLC in CA.

As mentioned by others, I have found local meetups to be very beneficial.