Specifically, I'm curious about how you find information on local regulations, how you automate the process, and how you make it fast and efficient.So far, my approach has been to call each municipal building to ask about their regulations on short term rentals.

This strategy allows for a relatively fast recycling of cash and free cash flow.The market has shifted hard and appreciation is not on the same trajectory as it was a few years ago, but it does still exist especially if you can force it. $200-$300k of appreciation on day one on a sub $1M property in the Bay Area is pretty good.

Rent control may prevent you from increasing the rent fast enough to keep pace with inflation, limit your ability to select a reliable tenant, and make evictions of non-performing tenants difficult or impossible.

You should fix maintenance concerns as fast as humanly possible.4.

Fast forward to now, and there is an incredible opportunity to buy out old folks like me.

That 25% equity will get eroded fast. 

We still made plenty of money... but you don't know what you don't know... and in Flips, that can get very expensive, very fast.  

While she was a very attractive woman, I politely declined and drove to the courthouse as fast as I could to file for an eviction.

Any suggestions for private lenders and advice would be awesome and also can private money be put in place fast? 

Fast forward many month's.