I've been a bay area native my whole life, and Looking to get into Real Estate investing as a supplemental job and to "hack" my way into a house of my own.

To maintain our standard of living and travel the world like we want, we will need to supplement our income however.  

I'm looking for somebody that has knowledge of investing in tax lien certificates, that would be willing to exchange email addresses with me, and maybe point me in the right direction as far as how to get started, and what I should expect in terms of startup costs, operation costs, and pitfalls.I'm essentially looking to create an income stream to help supplement my Real Estate Sales and PM Companies.

I'm working on it.I wasn't sure if anyone had any stories of supplementing their landlord insurance for the property of an umbrella and LLC.

Below I have attached a spreadsheet of some numbers that I have put together showing the income from two investment properties with some money coming in from our own income to supplement saving for future investments. 

Some of the metrics that the survey provides and that I find valuable to understand are:- Population- Home Values- Household Incomes- Rental Vacancy Rate- Homeowner Vacancy Rate- Poverty Rate- Educational Attainment Rate (High School/GED & Bachelors)- Number of Housing Unit- Rent to Income Ratio- Rent to Price Ratio- Population on SNAPS (supplemental nutrition assistance program) percentage- Property Tax Rate- Median Age of Buildings- Number of Structures by Units (SFR, Duplex, Triplex, Quadplex, etc...)- Median Rents by Number of Bedrooms- Unemployment Rate- Employment Sectors PercentagesAlso take into consideration the direction in which each of these market indicators are trending.

I would also focus on making yearly goals of supplemental tasks which will help you reach your goal.

My wife and I are looking at a house in La Mesa and our goal would be to turn the 450 sq. ft. detached garage into a small studio in order to help supplement the mortgage payment.

The amount of useful information someone with even half a brain can learn here for free to supplement books from Amazon or even the public library is astonishing.

Obviously the present owner has 100% occupancy since he is supplementing his tenants rent.