Yes you have more options in the city, but it's no guarantee that you're going to get into a decent school anymore with families moving to catchment areas of the schools that they want and filling them.

Your mentor’s advice about starting with a rental property is solid, and a duplex could be a great option for house hacking.

The asset was sold a couple years later and the operator gave all investors the option to exchange into a new acquisition or liquidate.

Sec8 is the "Options Trading" of Investment Real Estate. 

In the end, it may be the same amount of money or more, but it will just have to be structured differently as you navigate the shifting market.Northwest Valley would be a good option. 

Conventional can be a good starting point for your first properties because of the lower rates, but for entities and if you are planning to scale, DSCRs are great option since they focus on the property’s rental income rather than your personal income.

However, if you learn the different options available and then figure out what they really want, you can often negotiate a killer deal.

Most who opt for section 8 are purchasing in the lowest barrier neighborhoods where section 8 is the best of bad options.

Quote from @Edgar Duarte: hi allI would love to get some perspective from your expertise, we have a property that we would have to sell in 2025 to avoid paying taxes on the capital gains, we believe we rcan sell it for $700K and get an equity of almost $500K after paying the mortgage balance, if we invest all of it option in index funds at 7% rate (standard com growth calculator), or in more rental properties as we are all here for, I can get the equity of around $900K.option B would be keep paying the house at 2.3% int rate while we have it in AirBnB and maybe sell it in 10 years for $900K, knowing that we would be paying taxes but it is not that bad still. or we can 1031 at that point?

I’m new to all of this and looking at 401k loans and HELOC as options.