I come from a long line of restaurant operators and chefs (I chef around on a daily basis), and have been dreaming up restaurant concepts ever since I was a kid. 

Any advice on how to capture international buyers moving to US?

With the allowable rent increases due to the rent control, do you see (or have you seen) a trend developing where rather than allowing the market/individual landlord to determine rent increase rates, landlord's will automatically go for the maximum (7% you stated) to ensure they're capturing as much growth as possible, basically creating a 'market' that increases by 7% no matter what? 

I currently owe $169,041 on the property and the mortgage is $1,194.90 and I am capturing $1450.00 in rent.

A real estate license will save you a lot of money in the long run as you can capture the commissions on the buy and sell side in addition to providing MLS access for data you can't get elswhere. 

Why don't we just drop our insurance coverage, after all's it's just an unnecessary expense. people don't seem to understand that in the investment world, Arbitrage is a term for going long on something somewhere, and going short elsewhere to try to capture a small price inefficiency.

I use a simple spreadsheet that captures as many "comps" as possible to include many data points.

I still invest in my Roth 401k, but only at 6% to capture my company match. 

It's a funnel to capture a lead.

That stinks.Personally, I'd capture that equity now, while you can avoid the CG tax, and redeploy into a cash-flowing MFR.