Tip:  It you are photographing holes in the wall, stick your hand or a ruler next to it to give an indication of the size. 

I’m considering selling my Bay Area home and renting to drastically reduce my expenses for a much quicker route to financial Independence: https://www.financialsamurai.com/real-estate-investing-rule-rent-luxury-buy-utility/

As our savings grow (still less than 100k, but definitely more money than either of us have ever seen in our lives), I've been thinking about using the cash to put 20% down on well-priced homes in other states that meet the 1% rule, renting them out, and then having local property managers keep up with the day-to-day maintenance.Still need to do a lot of research--I know the FIRE community is very anti-outsourcing for property management, and I know it cuts into profits, so I'm curious about the BP community.

Mike you're not supposed to tell them that you can "reside" for next to nothing in flyover country and use so much more of your income to travel to any paradise you want and live like a king without paying king's taxes.....Well galdum we don't have no steak round here, just Bubba burgers.

If you're flipping burgers for $10 an hour, $21,000 a year if you're working full time, its a long, hard road to get to having a million bucks to invest in that property. 30 years at that wage only generates $600,000 total.

I guess it's a concept like flipping burgers before you own the joint, it really gets your feet wet.

Prices have been climbing over the last few years.There is a meetup group (CIA) that would meet once a month at Bob's Burgers by the outlet mall which is worth attending. 

We live in a get it now society, thats why fast food chains such as mcdonalds burger king will never go out of business. because people only have to wait a few minutes to get what they need.

The cheapest, and one you can do yourself, is just to take a marker, mark a straight line across the crack at a few points along it, and take daily (at first, then weekly) measurements of the crack at the marks (use the same ruler each time) and keep a log of the measurements - this will at least tell you whether or not the crack is getting larger or smaller. 

Think I'll go for a long walk, try out Marlow's burger, walk the embarcadero (nice and quiet mid day) then come back home, take in a jacuzzi, hand craft a latte, and surf the web.