@Dustin PallsAndy McFarland has a good video about this on his YouTube channel "I love real estate stories".

In Cali just renting can be a competitive sport.

Also having a few anchors in a city help for stability (e.g. capital cities, sports teams, highly reputable colleges / universities).Please add us to your buyers list. 

I read rich dad poor dad and watched a YouTube video by Jay Morrison on buying a multi family home to get wealthy.  

Take pictures and or videos of the place. 

One is online 24x7 like BP and youtube videos and another essential facet is belonging to a few local REIAs at the same time.  

Other than all that, everyone likes a killer home theater or a 3D video wall & ceiling in a night club (ever been to The Fremont Experience in Vegas?).

I found BP via Youtube starting with Peter Harris's videos and following suggestions.  

I've listen to some of the podcast and videos in Youtube.

So far my POL investment (Tinley Park Sports Complex) has been performing as expected, but soon after doing that one (and a fix-and-flip on PeerStreet), it became clear that I would need a *lot* of capital to effecitvely diversify away the risk of any non-performing loans (it's not apples-to-apples, but this analysis from LendingRobot on diversification needed for P2P notes is helpful.)