Im exploring that alternative with the city.

Too undiversified for me though.Another alternative is to sell some of the physical properties and purchase an equal amount of a RE mutual fund to allow you to rebalance your real estate portfolio with non-real estate investments more easily and frequently in the future.

Inventory continues to be the biggest factor in keeping prices high throughout San Diego county.If you are one of the many buyers on hold due to interest rates, a good alternative is asking the seller to credit you for a 3-2-1 or 2-1 rate buy down.

If your STR income doesn't cut it for DTI, look into alternative financing like portfolio or hard money loans.

YET so apropos for anything guru or paid training in the real estate space or for that matter option trading or forex or whatever.Having been a back room vendor to a lot of these companies I saw it first hand..

If not, what alternative strategies would you recommend?

Alternatively, there is space to add a second bedroom.

It is fairly easy to get a loan modification or other alternative to foreclosure (Assuming its Fannie/Freddie, which is still 70% of the market) these days and values are not declining so, its not like we were chasing values down like we were 08-16."

Alternatively, if you're planning on buying multifamily in a low cost of city to get the best bang for your $ - then it might make more sense to do so. 

Alternate uses of the same money).