It takes a long time to grow a buy-and-hold portfolio buying only with cash.

However, you'll likely only be able to go up a single story unless you reinforce the existing foundation to hold a second story on top.

If location is strong and you can't replacement the rent dollar for dollar then replace to a better tenant and lease term to hold the dollar or increase the equity dollar value overall. 

Investment Info:Other buy & hold investment.

Tell them that you are serious about running a quality STR and to have them call you at the first sign of problems.That will give them some peace of mind and have a way to get a hold of you instead of calling the cops.

Investment Info:Small multi-family (2-4 units) buy & hold investment.

Investment Info:Small multi-family (2-4 units) buy & hold investment.

Then hold contractors accountable.2.

Some people hold it just because they won't make as much as they want, but then the market goes down and they lose more so you to know the sale and rental market as well as the trending nature of the area.

For a lot of things you can just look up material costs and assume the same for labor. 50% material and 50% labor holds roughly true for the entire project, at least for me here in Milwaukee, your labor cost will probably be higher in the Bay Area.100-125k spread would be tight, even for me here in Milwaukee.