Quote from @Jeff Shaver: Current investment property in San Diego brings in $5K a month, my net after mortgage/PM/etc. is around $650.

Ahead of Manhatten, LA, San Francisco. 

Cities in the San Francisco Bay Area are charging vacancy taxes because they're seeing people with a lot of capital just buy up properties to hold onto for appreciation and not renting them out.

A few cities I am interested in are Houston, Scottsdale, San Diego.

My property is in San Jose, CA and would be worth about $1M and the above insurance is at the same level as my homeowners and costs a little more (about 7% more).

., I looked up the San Diego ADU bonus program. 15 years is not a long time to be deed restricted!

.: Just getting ready to post my 3 bed/2 ba home as an STR in San Diego.

And just the other day, I was grabbing coffee with a friend who reps a group of invsetors out in San Antonio.. they got burned early on by not clarifying their rental criteria, picking up a triplex that sounded good on paper but turned out to have a revolving door of problematic tenants.A baseline business plan isn’t just a mind-numbing exercise.. it’s the guardrail that keeps your momentum from swerving off into the ditch.

If i lived in San Jose, the first RE investment that i would consider is a local property with an ADU that had distribution on the lot that would allow a profitable lot split.   

San Jose did as an example and there are a few resources they've put out.