I would prefer there to be no rent control, no extreme covid eviction moratoriums, no law mandating pets but these policies have resulted in me making a lot of money.  

Yeah $4k minimum is extremely fair IMO.

@Andrew Postell This is an extremely helpful post and I have a question.

One of the items was "termites in crawl space" - truthfully we never saw any termite evidence they are extremely rare in our area and only in the crawl space.

Their response is always, “oh I forgot, I’ll pay today”, but they never do.I’m an extremely reasonable landlord and it’s starting to feel like they’re taking advantage. 

Although I did learn a little and met some awesome folks I feel as though I learned more from this website and other free resources on the internet than I did from what I found to be an outdated home study course and this extremely high-level Three Day Seminar.The seminar I found to be 10% focused on education and 90% focused on selling the coaching programs that are designed and intended to guide the recipient to earn in upwards of $100k/ per annum in investing.   

In bay area you have to be extremely creative and think like business person to create value there re lot of opps but if you copy paste the normal way of finding cash-flow, you would not be succesful.

@Freddy Hernandez, landlords prefer for tenants to pay their own utilities especially those based on usage.

Yes you can buy properties extremely cheap there but the flipside is that once yoI've rehabbed them, recouping your rehab and purchase money will prove difficult because of the low property values .  

I'll jump in here with some actual usage data.I have 250 units on stayfi and have been running it for a couple of years now.I initially got it to simplify my wifi login process...