Once you've thought a bit about what your ideal wholistic investment portfolio looks like, if you decide that you want some kind of more active real estate investing in the mix, I cannot recommend more getting Start with Strategy by Dave Meyer and the accompanying workbook The Strategy Planner.

(Ideally I'd like to hold the homes a long as possible)Would love some feedback from the BP community

If there's equity maybe selling and restarting would be ideal unless you can up income/cut down expenses

Ultimately it was the customer service and poor quality of my post cards that caused me to leave.

Our real estate goals are to purchase our first investment by end of 2025 (ideally small muti-family like a duplex), and scale to ~40 doors to reach our financial targets.EDUCATION & EXPERIENCE: My parents flipped every house I ever lived in growing up.

To help support that avatar, try and have on-site parking and ideally a place where a large work truck can be parked without issue (think fully decked out F-350). 

Local lenders and credit unions could face insurmountable losses to their balance sheets and customer bases as well as the downstream financial and real estate service sector.

A 4-plex would be ideal and you could play around with doing 1 long-term, 1 mid-term, and 1 short-term, plus you, if it works on your area to upgrade your income.

This allows them to get more capital so they can make more loans without having to grow their asset base, while also maintaining their relationship with the customer through monthly payments.

There are many reasons that adding a single ADU in southern CA is a less than ideal RE investment (i will post a list at the end) but the negative initial equity is a primary reason as the initial negative equity position consumes the initial cash flow and can take many years to recover.As for converting your home to a rental….