@Kevin PhuFirst, you are in CA, so my opinion is it would be a waste of money to insulate the garage, unless you are planning to put in an A/C unit and use it as a man cave.

I appreciate the help man!

:)Some stats:16 x 2bed, 1.5 bath unitsNOI: 70000Cap: ~10%COC return: ~12%Little about me:Currently working in Corporate America in the Tech sector but I want to build a real estate portfolio to assure my family never ends up homeless.

Some recent examples are Scott Sutherland, Rod Khleif (a motivational speaker as well as investor--man did he have some interesting psychology insight!)

Who cares about anything else.We rented to a lady (man?

@Jinhee ParkCongrats man !

However, independent of the painful schooling I've had being a long distance landlord (I refuse to hand it over to a prop man co), I've managed to turn the property around, literally doubled the rent from when i bought it, significantly improved the tenant base and have updated, renovated, and flushed out most of the poor workmanship the property has suffered over the years.

-De'Andre WilliamsThe man bought a $40K car with additional debt while having $41K in consumer debt. 

@Peter StewartIt takes a man to admit his mistakes .

Thanks, man.