The world values your money at 3 or 4% with no risk. 8 or 10% with moderate risk.

For comparison purposes, I hold ownership units in a LLC that owns a retail/service center where there is a mortgage loan that initially represented 50% of value, now about 35%.  

Trying to do my due diligence and research reviews on them before making this expense.  

$30k in additional value for $5k invested is a great return.

-save $1k+ in taxes and fees yearly-can use the savings to get more insurance and a higher liability than the value of house. for flipping houses in California does anyone just put into sole proprietor own name and just use the $1k+ in savings for LLC costs into Insurance or use for savingor am I just being too risky. 

This is why for an investor who get's to a certain portfolio size where they could just hire someone directly and take on yet another role (employer), there is still value in a PM via the shield a licensed PM provides. 

It is used towards the appraisal, the environmental study, document review and preparation.

From a pricing perspective it rents are now 1/2 of what they were that could have a big impact on the value of the property.

Buy in a market not too far away, 30 to 1 hr from a decent city center where values are reasonable and a city push out with help your rent and appreciation. 

One year after I used that property to pull a HELOC and this year used that money to purchase an off market 4 family property in Clinton for well under market value, which I just recently finished all of the repairs and upgrades on.