Ultimately it's important to be accurate, consistent, and in a controlled pace in executing a task. 

Those who are most successful buying SFH's buy in markets that experience a sudden  appreciation event/spike in home ownership  creating an end buyer market that no longer consists primarily of investors.

For instance, with how we set up our bridge product, we convert the house that you will be selling (your old home) into an investment property and payoff the existing mortgage with a bridge loan refi that has a 6 month term and monthly payments that consist of only tax and insurance escrow.

Stay consistent for fair housing.

Other cities in San Diego county vary on their STR rules, but the beach area communities are consistently getting less STR friendly.  

We have a couple renting a house in Minnesota who is consistently behind on paying rent but they end up paying the full rent within the month, staying just out of reach of agreement termination.

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Is this consistent with what I should expect to pay for the returns I had performed?

If lower rate trends continue and stay consistent, expect the news to reach sidelined buyers and an uptick in buyer activity towards the end of summer into the anticipated September rate cuts. 

If you're going to be able to consistently invest solid chunks of money every single year, then a big part of your focus should be on not losing money versus hitting crazy returns. $50k invested per year at a 10% annual compounding return is just over $9m in 30 years on $1.5m invested.