I wish I started to look into RE at that age! 

Within that area what does your demographic research tell you about the age range? 

If the person views the successful individual as someone at a lower station, from any metric, age, profession, education, ect the effect is magnified which drives them to seek increase their own success. 3.

I go to investigate and there is a middle age lady with a nice wrangler (I suspect 35” tires, recovery points, not old (in good shape)).  

<---if you own Jefferson County properties in this age range, this issue should receiving your attention. 

That being said, my question is how at young age do you make these connections?

Plumbing is historically one of the most difficult things to fight since age and the structure matter so much and it is nearly impossible to pinpoint one issue that caused the damage. 

I'm originally from San Francisco, one of the more liberal and anti-landlord cities in the state.

Many of us on here wish we were thinking about real estate at that age.

I've only owned a couple sfh am middle-aged and not sure I agree with flipping sfh at this point to create wealth, time freedom and passive income so I have been reading and there seems to be a lot of talk with multi-families and more specifically apartment investing.