There is a severe shortage of home to rent in north OC, when one of our client's homes come up for rent, it is a feeding frenzy.

You said you have been reading several hundred hours of BP posts.  

That being said, if I could do it all over again I wouldn't change anything because I learned more about real estate investing and property management over the past several years from that deal alone than most people will learn in a lifetime.

and I think there are several remedies to resolve this - and the developer and the city's business/permitting services both have liability here. 

After that happened several of the properties were "given back" to the lenders. 

I've been using Stessa to manage my real estate portfolio for several years now.

BTW I am a 10-99 contractor and have been focused on the rehab for the past several months, which affects my verifiable income.

Keep that in mind:)Regarding partnering, have tried it several times and most times it ends with a split.So, if you go forward with partnership, recommend making sure you both agree in writing, on how a split would work.Otherwise, you an both share everything you leanr and help each other out monetarily as needed.

There is almost no understanding CPM- several multimillion dollar coliving start-ups have FAILED b/c they saw the demand for coliving w/out seeing the need for a respective form of property management (see HubHaus, Common, Starling, etc). 

We plan to construct several of these around the ATL market.