It's great to hear about your success with this multi-family buy-and-hold investment.

As a civil engineer I would recommend finding an engineer that has done work in this region before. 

I am out in Myrtle Beach SC and we have a few different meet ups out here

House was built in 2005 (I lived in this house and rented it out when I moved back to California). 

Or we gradually perform high-quality updates for a live-in flip, then roll the equity into a new home.Regarding rental income, we aim to boost income, lower our effective tax rate by generating more low tax-drag income with rental income (since there’s not much we can do to lower out W2 tax bills) and have retirement cash flow.To compare the financial impact over 10-20 years, we want to analyze renting versus flipping.

Quote from @Carolyn Fuller: If your MTRs are near a university, you should also list on sabbaticalhomes.com I haven't heard of this one, thank you!

Funny enough, I was going to suggest you move out of SF due to the high cost ;-) I'd suggest going down the SF condo route to start as financing for commercial units is a lot more difficult than residential properties.

I’ve hit my goal now so I’m not taking out anymore loans.

I live in Arizona and homes here are sky high, youd be lucky to get %6 interest rate, I would be a 1st time home buyer, apart from being 1099 employed would Trumps real estate plans benefit the little guys like me?

The claims of 1hr to collect rent, produce receipts, and deposit checks also seems like a reasonable claim if done physically and not electronically.