Introducing a fair negotiation on terms with (1) end price, (2) length of term and (3) cash up front could likely produce the results you BOTH are looking for. 

You can sell a few to pay off the rest or 1031 them into passive income.Any property you buy today should appreciate about 4.9% p.a. that's been US average (insert a % you believe is right, I believe Milwaukee may actually beat this number) over the next decades and your downpayment is leveraged 4:1, so that in itself produces a lot more equity over decades than you could ever safe up. 

I challenge you to find a single reputable source that shows San Diego residential RE has not produced outstanding ROI.  

most top producing resi agents avoid investors like the plague. 

You are betting your money on the neighborhood and the property (and the client base that will attract), hoping to produce a return greater than what the S&P 500 would produce over time.

We do not need it to produce massive cashflow like many investors are after, because our LTR's produce enough cashflow to help float the portfolio.    

A smooth sea never produced a skilled sailor (Franklin D.

Christina will go deep into where has the market moved to what might be coming in this next year in residential real estate.Bio:Over the last 15 years as a real estate investing mentor, Christina found the greatest obstacle her clients faced was an overwhelming amount of information about investment real estate that didn't produce the results they needed.She created the Live A Rich Life - Real Estate Investment Workshop to simplify the process so people could get started at a pace they could handle, using a system that maximized results.

The websites have been around since 2003, and regularly produce over 30,000+ monthly and multi-month/seasonal rental inquiries per year, the past two years.Good luck to you.

Yes, in many markets home 1-4 unit home prices have gone up so much that they will not produce positive cash flow.