Specifically, in Castro Valley.My parents live with me as well as my sister and I have been realizing that working a full time job will not get me enough money for retirement as I take care of my parents and try to safeguard the future of my kids.

Note: there is posted on the side door a notice from Safeguard Properties but they had nothing to share. 

If you are like myself (and a lot of millenials) though, you dont want to actually safeguard some commodity that can be stolen from you.

Perhaps they could implement a screening process and grace period when the tenant and owner is not match and prorate the costs of backing out and build in plenty of other safeguards.

So those are my safeguards. (3) I was just told by other investors that Richmond has been identified as a "safe place" to park money into real estate.

Safeguard Capital Partners has what appear to be fairly safe performing notes with a return of 9% so that is the direction I am leaning towards going in regarding buying notes. 

We set up milestones, inspections, and other safeguards for both seller and buyer.

You are safeguarded as long as you have the house under an option and the deal is papered up correctly (contract).

I compare it to the stock market if you don't have a sound strategy that you can implement eventually you will go broke with that method in economic downturns if you do not have safeguards in place.  

We worked with 3rd party companies like safeguard and Trueassets that lasted for like I said, 10 months until we realized that they didn't really want to pay us and would try at nothing to get out of it.Example being we would show up at a property that was overgrown with weeds and was badly in need of work.