CA prime spots are a long term buy and hold play.. as we know the CA market is subject to some swings in values some can be dramatic.. but over time the state has shown some of the best performance in the entire US... but if your one who worries about value on a daily basis then RE can drive you nuts... if you have a long term investing horizon then you buy and hold and if and when we hit a trough you hold through the trough.. you only lose money when you sell at poor times. 

Most of the house does not have a crawl space.  

I will know tomorrow if the seller accepted another offer on the spot, on the Sunday or wanted to hear from me.

Hint: the word "revolutionizing" should signal this strongly-Alignment is terrible-Quality is deterioratingIn any event the post above is pretty spot-on from what I can tell.  

I can scrape the remaining $100k, but that puts me in a tight spot until I can refinance it.

This is  pretty spot on,  Its also  safe to say that town  off the speedline like  Audobon, Collingswood  and all of the Haddons were  mostly built in the early  1900's  similar to Philadelphia so even with a  rehab  I would  higher the  cost of  repairs  withholdings  close  to  8 to 10% and  youll have  the majority with Knob and Tube!  

Recently, a spot came up on our team for a Realtor.

George and Zion NP is one of our favorite spots.

Hi @Daniel Hyman,Thank you for the response, I read thru a lot of them, doesn't seem to exist anything that is hitting that sweet spot for the real estate investors with less than 10 properties, seemed Rental Property Manager might fit the bill but the reviews are not that good.

Job growth, population growth, low unemployment, good schools, diversified employment, household income growth, all of those are available to you from free sources they will tell you where the good spots are.