Kudos to you for doing something to create a secondary income stream. there are 5 income streams in RE rentals, possibly six if you do things a certain way.The reality here is your model (buy box) is suffering from too high an entry and too high a cost of capital.

Their commercials seem higher quality than the no on prop 33 commercials (who have similar budgets but from much more sources).Hopefully voters educate on this and strike down this proposition for the third time. 

Purchased a little too high at the buy (I knew it at the time too), does a little better than breaking even on cashflow, and took too long to rehab.

Haven’t had a chance to research STR permits in Sac yet but writing offer for a unit today.   

Hi everyone,I am currently a high school senior turning 18 in a month.

Focusing solely on numbers often leads to the purchase of low-quality properties.

For the PA investors out there or maybe in other states with high transfer taxes (2% of property value).

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Before bigger pockets moved the rent estimator to pro users only it estimated rent to be around $975 I don't know or have anything to go by but I thought that was high.

Now, moving forward he offered for us to take it over completely.