I know the owner LInda Pilagas and way back in the day I advertised with them but your right its paid advertising..

With the newer 5% down conventional loan for owner-occupied multifamily option, I generally advise people to start analyzing from there if they want to house hack a multifamily with minimal down.  

Apparently a lot of times the owners have more games than their floor can handle and/or have underperforming games that they can sell you.

Duplex Development Made Easy - SB 9 permits property owners to convert single-family lots into duplexes.

We use Propstream but I am looking for some added info that Propstream does not easily provide  @Sean OToole is the owner and he has built an incredible platform..

However the owner comes from corporate world and they started out doing deep dives into markets and moving Hedgefund type portfolios between large investors.. they then decided to offer there service to smaller turnkey type and one offs..

If you have a business entity(you want to properly track money going in / out from its owners).They will likely be classified as contributions / distributions.Best of luck!

It looks like the owner is on Bigger Pockets, but not active on it.

In California, a tenant is considered an “at will” tenant if ALL of the following conditions are met: (a) the individual occupies a property, or room within the property, with the owner, (b) there is no agreement for the occupancy to be for a specified period of time; AND (c) the individual occupying the property is not paying, and never has paid, any rent.

For people that want to close and make it pretty/official/permitted/etc once they are owners, the question is "what is the cheapest way we can get this to pass an appraisal without the appraiser calling for a licensed/bonded/professional/whatever to fix things prior to closing?"