While he started his eviction-only practice in Silicon Valley, I think he might have an arm up your way now. 

I live in Silicon Valley so I would of thought that would be a big hit here. 

I'd be happy to chat with you folks about lending stuff, but my zone is only 1-4 unit residential.I generally connect pretty damn well with silicon valley tech wizards, and early on at least that is of course going to be a demographic disproportionately over-represented among your clients (former co-workers at other tech startups etc).

We were in Silicon Valley in the '70-90's and the market is not for the faint of heart.There can be issues for agents/brokers that private investors don't have to deal with, so IMO, it's questionable if an RE license has any added value.

If you had met someone who cashed out from being employee #5 at google, would you run to silicon valley?

I’ll post more for Silicon Valley, San Jose, and Santa Clara later.

And when the kids are out of school, instead of having a depleted account, I'll have house in Silicon Valley earning me a decent supplement to my income.

However, it does have some elements of Real estate investment trust (REIT) with dividend yields, combined with a truly a unique strategy deriving from my many years of investment experience in star ups in the Silicon Valley and construction experience, including rehabs and new construction.

I am investing in Redwood City CA near silicone valley and our market is tight.  

Maybe you can represent whats happening in Sacramento I know there Is INTENSE interest from bay area investor who are priced out of silicon valley but don't want to go out of state..