If you are supplementing properties with money from your w2 job and that goes away you will feel some serious pain.

It was a painfully slow and convoluted process, but finally culminated in my buying the house in May of 2018, six months after I signed the purchase agreement.It took me another three months to finish the rehab and get it back to brand-new condition (See After Photos Below).

@Chinmay J.I feel your pain brother.....I almost had the exact same thing happen to me.

Everything from roofing, gutters, exterior/interior paining, landscaping to woodworking and tiling.

Welcome, I am from Sacramento as well and feel your pain of how expensive it is here.  

Depreciation is great for deductions but payback/recapture is painful so get a strategy to minimize payback if possible. 

Seth,I feel your pain and have similar problems in the past.

The knob and tube shouldn't be too much of a pain to swap out (but definitely do it).

And it was painful to see that money disappear. 

It could potentially be a great platform for all of us to share best practices or pain points that we inevitably deal with as a landlords, but why deal with it alone?