It's basically Trump university.

But education starts somewhere, and basic analysis and due diligence will enable the investor to avoid the worst investments.  

You need to drive short distance on private street and then up ~150’ driveway.  

We have basically switch some of our properties from short term Airbnb’s to mid term rentals.Currently looking to buy the next property to help accommodate some of the requests we are getting.Anyone else getting these type of requests for mid term stays?

Where people want to live will drive rents, revenue, and appreciation. 

We also want to expand our profolio but cannot find anything within 2 hours drive, or in California in general.

There are some lenders who specialize in lending for double closes and will basically send you the money for a couple days but I personally haven't done this and don't know what the charge.

you're "out of pocket" those costs, plus maybe a month of vacancy.my point - you're basically always out of pocket on a rental. sometimes the rent more than covers everything, other times it doesn't. 

Sale to sold ratio is 5:1 wow but price is flattening without reduction of seasonality ; basically this market is bought by in-migration from NYC/MA area pretty much, it's not an organic growth.

For more details on driving for dollars, check out this article from BiggerPockets:   https://www.biggerpockets.com/blog/driving-for-dollars