@Robert Taylor  The fire happened Wed @ 4:30 amI had a vm from the inspector on Thursday and the property mgnt also called Thursday morning saying one of their employees saw it on the news.

welcome, lots of great info in both the buy and hold theme and lanldording forums you might enjoy..

Biggest theme I have seen is across any endeavor is just get started, probably the hardest step and now time to get on moving~Initial strategy was to buy a MF house, but after realizing the places we want to live are costly, decided the new strategy will be to buy our primary condo, then leverage the equity in that to buy a second house as a multi-family. 

The attorney's office just emailed me saying that they can close the loan assumption transaction with the me and the seller but, the lease/purchase agreement would need to be handled between myself and the new buyer.

I also plan to move in the next year, and there are other life events that may effect my time and money in the future (wedding, children, selling my condo and/or buying a SFR for me and my growing family etc. etc.) 

Going a little more that direction and over the border the NH Mastermind meeting in Nashua (Next Wed) is very good.  

Nonetheless, our NOO/rentals are not in CA - and we don't have these water rationing issues there.Our primary residence (and I would probably also do this if and when we purchased investment properties here) is primarily grass with some native trees, shrubs and plants (near the property).To allow us to have grass without heavy fines for water we use 1) apply summer guard and 2) winterize our laws. 3) we are mandated to water only Wed and Sat (early am or late evening). 

Unfortunately, it's a common theme that housing courts are backed-up (and courts in general), so even if you have the waiver of a jury trial, it still may take some months to come to a conclusion. 

I know a lot of people who used student loans to pay for things other than school, (weddings, etc), but it is specifically prohibited.

For flips, learn how to correctly calculate the ARV and the construction costs.It doesn't seem like a popular theme on BP but I buy my cash flow rentals in other areas of the country from turn-key flippers.