Since he doesn't seem to have been able to acquire that sense through the school of hard knocks, he's not going to acquire it through sweet reason spoken to him out of his landlord's mouth."

I like the idea of diversification of my investments and I love the strategy BAM has articulated: the focus on properties with below market rents in growing areas with jobs and good schools. 

I've noticed the typical Silicon Valley hard-core tech startups have a disproportionately high male to female employee ratio, a large portion of engineers hold advanced degrees from big-name tech schools like Stanford and MIT, the C level execs all have extensive tech background even the ones that deal with the business side, etc. checking out online reviews is actually not that straightforward and without traps. 

Really if I could sign a group up for 2025 I would be very happy with that and would just try my best to do month to month until the new school year. 

I think the winter market concerns are really primarily only really worrying if you are looking at a larger SFR attracting families to due the "school year" issue - but other types of strategies I don't think its as much of a concern

Now that we have significant equity positions in renovated, stable properties, we want to move into even better neighborhoods with better schools and we'd like to scale our business by purchasing newer and larger multi-family properties (rather than groups of duplexes).

Quote from @Craig Sparling: I consider myself an old school fundamentals guys. 

I will be applying to schools this upcoming summer, interviewing in the fall, and, Lord-willing, finding out late fall where I will be headed. 

Fit buy box of A or B rated school that will appreciate over time.

Quote from @Rhyse Andrews: @Erin Helle1) try to squeeze in some tutoring sessions for mid terms/finals before schools go on break.2) set up EIN and a business bank account  Love it. #2 won't take long at all (less than 2 hours total) and will set you up nicely for next year!