I served in the Marines and was stationed in Beaufort 2013-2017.

I would buy every property I could get my hands on with that rent to purchase price ratio in my primary market (Marin County - San Francisco). 

I've recently commissioned as a 2nd Lieutenant in the Marine Corps and am looking to start a Real Estate Holding Company.

& sounds like business as usual for our friends up in Marin county as well.

In my county, Marin County California, an income of $100,000 is considered "low income," - not enough to get you a section 8 voucher but still "low." 

I've had a few rentals, but am now ready (after retiring from a 27-yr career in the Marine Corps and most recently as an organic farmer in mid-coast Maine) to get knee-deep into wholesales and rehabs.

I have been working on rentals and flips for years with a Mariner (small SUV) with a trailer hitch.

After spending a few years leading marines, I noticed a phenomenon we called “gelling”.

Sub $50K JADUs have been built in Marin, Napa and Santa Cruz counties. 

Here in Marin there are few places with any kind of rent control at all.