Actually, this method works best when the market tanks, so you can buy low in a distressed market ... call it a hunch, but San Diego seems to be softening a bit and there is a decent chance (if you're lucky) that you may see such great buying opportunities in the not so distant future.

The local officials don't want drunks driving back to distant hotels.

Ive had some ideas pop up, but with now real experience I don't know if they are distant dreams or realistic thoughts.

Non-payment of rent is grounds for eviction once you do proper paper work of notice and all that legal stuff.Reason, I say is because my tenant, an older lady had a heart attack and was delayed on getting her job, so I am behind by 4 months now...i let it slip past for humanity sake, and now its getting difficult, promises after a while seem distant and goes unfulfilled...So decide if you want to continue with this tenant or not and let it die while you are still friendly with them and not let it play on your emotions where it gets difficult as months pass you by with loss of rent and trust in the tenant. my 2 cents anyways.If i do it all over again, I would have evicted at the first sign of delinquency.

I got a distant Family friend to loan me 90% and I got the seller to agree to a 1 year note(single payment) for the balance.

We are hoping to relocate to Tennessee in the not to distant future as CA has and is circling the drain.

Also if you are investing in a distant market what would be the best type of property to invest in since I will be using a Property Manager.thank you in advance

@Brian Burke   the cherry on the cake on the one i am going to bull doze sometime in the distant past one of the owners dismantled a car hauled it down into the basement and put it all back together..

@Lauren Myers Tacoma is a nice area, I have distant family (Tebb) in the lumber industry there, whom I visited a few times when in the area with the RCN.  

I was wanting to copy something a distant aquaintance did in Wichita by using his extra space as a startup hub of sorts - basically let folks apply to use the space and let them use it for free as long as he got a cut of anything they produced or was able to use/try the product.