Regardless, CA needs to clean up its act or else tech (and film) will eventually get fed up.

My realtor said that initially he thought the ARV for my building would only increase by about $60K but that if I held over the long term eventually I would get the value.

If you start with some buy and holds, test out some GC's on maintenance / small work then you can start building a relationship with someone and eventually get full blown BRRRR's / Flips going.

Our typical strategy is to purchase and renovate a property with cash (or Lines of Credit), stabilize it with good renters, then eventually refinance on a 30 year conventional for a more secure, long term investment hold.

My objective is to get enough passive income to eventually focus on investing and building myself as a business as my job/career instead of working for other people or companies.

I personally learned it by finding a local mentor, joining as a LP, learning the ropes and eventually graduating to the GP role.

My main goal is to identify an opportunity that can be scaled from a couple of spots to a dozen, to several dozen eventually without the need to completely re-design or re-engineer the layout without respect to providing utilities. 

You will tire of having strangers live in your house or you will eventually move.  

I was going to say On DMonte, which is listed, aside from keep dropping price, all the way to break-even point (mortgage balance) eventually there isn't much else you can do, but I just saw its showing pending online... so did you manage to get it in escrow?  

I’d love to get this group’s thoughts on what to do with 3 acres of undeveloped land (no septic, no water) in the Texas Hill Country that I plan to eventually pass on to my children (read: never sell because it’s family land).