Bringing along your spouse might also be helpful, as they may have a good intuition about people.

I don't have the experience as to what to do with the contract but my intuition from my customer service background just says to talk to the seller, explaining your difficulty finding an investor & request additional time.Something else that may help you is www.meetup.com I'm in a REI group in my area and it is very active.

Most utility companies have a "landlord policy" where you would be notified if they stopped paying, and the bill get sent to you when they take the account out of their names when they are moving.I allow them to pay separately, and most use Intuit's Payment Network- $.50/ transaction.Put whatever rules you want in the lease, mine includes clauses about medical marijuana, bed bugs, when to take the trash out, that Drano is ok to use, not to use flushable wipes, that light bulbs within the unit are their responsibility, not to turn the heat down below 50 degrees, not to change locks, no guests for more than 5 days without written permission, the list goes on.  

My quick, back of the napkin math, says that I'll generate at least as much income from that 1 connection this year as I paid in tuition to Xavier.  

Intuitively, I like the first.Or, you can have two $100,000 properties, both rent for $1,600 a month.. one appraises for $120,000... the second for $140,000.

Simplify your thought process and grow your gut intuition, or find others who've got a good sense of your local market and use their knowledge/insight to make those good decisions.

I'll third what has been said- there should almost be a biggerpockets/Bay Area edition, as not only are our numbers so radically different, they are actually counter intuitive to the rest-of-country investors.

It isn't the most intuitive but it keeps all the finances organized.

Or at least it should.5) In “Residents”, their drop-down for “Current, Upcoming, and Ended” is not intuitive at all.

It's fairly new so still some kinks but I find it much easier and intuitive than combing through some of these other sites.