Find Brandon's videos on YouTube for the "four square" method of analyzing homes and practice.

Hi Mario, Very common method.

my main interest was in the letters he uses as messaging matters.  2nd was his method of narrowing down the list to the most likely sellers. 

Quote from @Justin R.: I was living in the Los Angeles area as well when I started my "Out of State" investment journey.

Quote from @Kaushik R.: The Landlord insurance policy quotes I am receiving has a high deductible for Wind/Hail/Named Storm coverage which effectively means replacing the roof would be out of pocket for me which defeats the purpose of carrying this insurance.

It will also depend somewhat on the price of the house and the method they use for determining the payout.

Does HELOC and other home equity financing methods work in the current high interest rate environment?

Good chance you'll be like Michael Chang and make enough to purchase a substantial amount of real estate through the rental arbitrage method! 

Of course one method to check demand is to see if there is an existing commercial ALF already in town and if so where.

Reduce labor expenses, you increase disposable incomes, reduce cost of goods, reducing cost of finished material goods, creating a compounding effect of savings that all culminate in a significant reduction in cost of housing production, increasing production capacity, increasing affordability, invigorating economic activity, raising tax revenues via the Walmart method of volume over profit margin.....