Having a great agent/broker can also allow an investor to scale and grow their empire/portfolio in ways that they never anticipated or dreamed of. 

is it passive cash flow, large lump sums of money, small portfolio to self-manage or do you want to own an empire?

It would also be nice to have real empirical pre-booking pricing data, a project I know is being worked on by a few independents. 

@Miguel IntencionHello Miguel, my name is David and I am located in the Inland Empire area (riverside).

Or what ideas do you have for how to get him into his own real estate empire? 

In another life, I could see you being a great corporate raider, a master of mergers and acquisitions, a junior junk bond trader with humble origins who rose to command a massive hedge fund empire, amassing $Billions$ of dollars and owning whole city blocks of Class A apartments just for your personal residence, in addition to a private island in the Caribbean.

With a duplex you could hopefully have your STR and your primary residence at least while you continue to expand your empire

Luckily, I work in the Inland Empire so I can look for properties in this area, which is not as crazy as Los Angeles.

Luckily, I work in the Inland Empire so I can look for properties in this area, which is not as crazy as Los Angeles.

But what I can't do is buy with 50% leverage all the time just to hit my DCR requirements as that (along with the high price) causes me to not be able to build my empire and grow.