I’ve reached far and wide.

Note everyone else commenting is an architect by trade and no offense to them but architects tend to overvalue their work in my opinion. 20 years ago I had to pay for real architects and the price was justified but now with new tech and programs its a saturated industry and prices vary widely  within a single market.I'm not here to tell you to fire your architect but it doesn't seem like you got several, if multiple bids at all.

I have pics of them leaving their doors widely open for hours. 

They believe things will go well (world wide) for the next year or so and then turn around to a negative.

In Los Angeles it is getting more and more difficult to have wide margins. 

You’ll probably have better tenants there and less risk of a soldier getting out of contract if they get deployed.

It could be a lot easier to get 1 loan rather than 6 mortgages and you get the added benefit of having to pay expenses and management on only a single property rather than multiple spread across a wide area.

So far I've just tried going on Redfin and zooming out really wide and clicking on random counties haha.

You can check out the store, https://www.biggerpockets.com/store, which has books endorsed by BP that cover a wide range of topics. 

Im in the top 1% of agents nation wide.....and when I buy or sell in another market, I still hire a local agent.