I didn't take into consideration the market...I've been told that Cali is a whole separate monster to deal with.

Bass is another monster that continues to allude me. :)@Dmitriy - Thanks for the tip!

The rehab itself turned out to be a bigger monster than I had originally anticipated.

Particularly robotics, biotech, and IoT. 

You're a monster!!

I worked hard to obtain this position and can assure you that this triple headed monster works very well.

The traffic going through the Sepulveda pass is a monster as well.

If the question was, "Is it better to out-monster the monster or to be quietly devoured?"

There was a whole string of these monster houses that slept 40-70 people.

I switched to using Lending Robot to manage my portfolio which offers two benefits. 1) Since they aren't the lender they are able to analyze the loans on more data points then LC is and thus get you returns a bit higher. 2) since my portfolio is under 5k I don't pay a management fee (it's only 0.45%).