We had been looking for homes and nothing felt quite right until we walked into this house covered in cat hair with purple and pink kitchen cabinets, bright green receptacle covers, etc.

As these people start to sell off to harvest the high prices, they'll be selling to people who either live here full time or will have to STR their properties for much, much higher prices, and the rest of us that have good places won't have to compete with the bottom feeders. 

The only thing I'd have to double check is when is the sec121 exclusion for the $250k capital gains tax exclusion is applied, but I'm pretty sure its applied after...Capital gains is taxed at the Federal level, and I believe from all the discussions also by California.You could tax loss harvest any other capital assets that might be down, e.g. stocks.I don't advocate the charitable donation for the sake of tax... 

We are tracking pink postcards and surprisingly they're doing better than the standard yellow.

The green and -pink lines and a few stops along the red line are areas that may have more lead way to growth (C/C-) neighborhoods personally, I don't mind them as I tend to be an active investor and create personal relationships with my tenants.

-I pull in ~9K/month of cash flow, but it's all tax free from the depreciation-I can harvest ~$1MM of cash at the end of this year after I refi some mobile home parks, but my DTI will be high thenTraditional lenders scoff at my taxable income, as if it's really the income that I make. 

In another, smaller property I have a leather couch, cowhide rug and a pink armchair.

I guess the decision is do I want to pay taxes on the seed or the harvest. 

I've been reading as much as I can on the subject, particularly the commercial investment/sales front as that's the field I would like to enter into, or operate primarily in, but I'm curious as to what self-education sources an ACTUAL commercial broker might suggest to a junior/inexperienced agent looking become a competent CRE sales professional in the future, without wanting to harvest a kidney in order to pay for it.