Count me in if I am available.

I managed the rentals myself up until early this year when I hired a property management firm in order to get some free time back, have some backup so I can go on vacations again,  and in response to the hostile political environment towards landlords in seattle.My long term plan with REI is to get to a large enough door count such that with sufficient equity the net cash flow is enough to live on comfortably  (which I would define as matching my current gross software engineer's salary).    

I can count on one hand the number of cuts I've ever made with my table saw.

I don't think the magnitude will be the same, but to a large degree it's perception that counts.

A client of mine inherited a relatively large amount of land in the Southern California area (San Diego, Orange Count and Riverside County), ranging from 12 to 398 acres and wants to either put this inventory to use or offload it.

Thanks a lot Jeffrey.Property Details: 2629 sqft, 4 bed, 2.5 bath on about .45 acres built in 1985 (sun room addition not counted as it was done w/o a license. 

If you don't get this done before closing, then based on what you said, the soonest you could use your lease would be Mar 1 provided you gave notice on or before Jan 29 (30 days before Feb 1) as the day of the notice does not count for one of the days required for notice.

Will the profits ALL count as profit- regardless of most of it going to pay off loans made on the property to create said profits?

VA loan requires you to have documentation of land lord experience in order to count rental income from units toward your income.FHA loan will allow up to 75% of appraised rental income to count toward your loan without any experience.

When the economy slows down with disappointing earnings, you will see local companies reducing head count and in one quarter or two the demand for housing diminishes, and home prices will tank.