If you will be buying in San Diego then that would be just one house probably.

So, abandonment and maintenance issues are not at the heart of this ED scheme in San Bernardino county.

In particular, I'd like to buy some buy and hold rental properties with cashflow.I'm under the impression that doing this in California in general, and the Bay Area in particular, is difficult at best (and only a crazy person would try it in San Francisco).Just for background, I have about $80k in seed capital from buying and rehabbing a foreclosure here in Virginia.

Just don't do it with fire like some of the clowns on youtube did; one full can of foaming bee/wasp/hornet spray, along with a back-up can that was used just for a couple of sprays on the outside was all it took.You sure it is bees, and not hornets or wasps?

I don't know Dale, but I've seen enough of his posts to know that he didn't mean anything disparaging by his reply....but such is the unseen face of any internet forum...I can assure you that he was just making a blanket reply not knowing what you were looking for or what specific area you were looking for leads for.There are people that will try to put a clown costume on and go to the closest intersection to get leads, but others that only market specific ways.

I wish we had some $30K-$60 SFR's here in San Diego like a lot of other BPers in other areas talk about, but prices are a bit higher in this area.I don't belong to any REI clubs, but I recently saw that there is one here in SD.

that is INSANE.

Should I make inspections on every house and then cross my fingers and hope I don't get outbid by some clown?

I live in San Francisco.

Danny Chan: I have MLS access in San Diego.