not to mention you can go on E bay and for 50 bucks or less you can buy any Guru's printed materials or tapes.. they all give them at the start of their seminars in exchange for the big fee's folks pay to go.. 

These companies don't want people to buy the vehicle just to resell it and make a quick buck, so they don't allow transfers right away.

One symptom is leases that have not been renewed or increased in years, but you also find a lot of deferred maintenance.I do a survey about rent increases with our RPA members every year here in Milwaukee and most of them have between 5 and 50 units.

You may also cash a couple hundred bucks a monthThis is how it should work.

This is the question I was going to ask....you are bucking the odds by staying in SoCal.

On a pre-1900 build I often see them filled with mortar, at least here in Milwaukee.

Ramon Sloan used to be on BiggerPockets and is from Milwaukee.

Not to rely on speculation, but it should get better over time (hopefully) not worse.If the marginal increase between the two options is only a few hundred bucks and that isn't worth a few hundred bucks to you, then maybe not worth it.

They were not terrible, some people would call them C minus, and it wasn't even that much about financial considerations at the time (appreciation was not a thing back then in Milwaukee) but just not what I wanted to own or manage, so I sold them to them tenants - after quite a bit of financial coaching to get them to qualify for a loan.My standard advice is always to buy the best quality property you can afford.

Looks like they even brazenly lied in writing against their own words from previous emails to rip me off a paltry couple hundred bucks.