It's unfortunate that everything is interpreted in the tenants favor as opposed to just be fair and neutral for both landlord and tenant in SF. 

I did it for your stated city and it is shown as 'neutral.'  

Do some digging around on the internal rate of return (IRR) of properties and you'll see some interesting results.Personally, I'll take a neutral cash flow property in a great long term market like Denver, over a cash flow positive market with not so great long term prospects. 

You can you passive losses to neutralize/eliminate passive income.

Does it guarantee that you'll have a PM representing you that the judges, informed as they usually are by the local police and their colleagues, will be favorably or at least neutrally listened to?

If ceiling fan has two switches on the wall but only one is used in fan housing (black is wired to fan and light so one switch turns on fan/light and a remote determines the use and red is capped and 2nd switch is inoperable) can I use that feed(red wire) with shared neutral to wire another fixture (6-10ft away) so I can utilize the unused switch 

And while those rapid burners do exist, I would say they are an extreme minority when compared to the total BP population.I would rather have a home that is net neutral in cash flow on the day that I purchase it, but is in a desirable area with 3-5% annual growth, than a $200 per month cash flowing home in a different area that isn't likely to get any appreciation or worse yet will depreciate. 

My statistics from June 2018 show that SFR rents increased $475 on average in the previous 3 years (so significantly more $100/month).So if you purchased a San Diego cash neutral SFR in June 2015 by June 2018 you would be ~$475/month cash positive (assume fixed rate loan). 

It would be pretty much cash flow neutral / slightly positive.

I guarantee a small multifamily would find at least a neutral leverage position (CoC = cost of financing) in your market with $150,000 to reinvest.