@Rob FullerI like this article, there some good analogies to itI like "above the median" great schools districtsRoom for family of five or sixinternal access to 2 car garageKitchen that faces a big backyard fenced Whether this home is for a buy-and-hold rental, resell to a retail buyer, or to a seller financed tenant buyer or wrap buyer, you're dealing with a "Toyota Camry wagon" or a "Honda Odyssey people mover", which most families love; this is a quality vehicle the people hang onto her for a long timeGet the product right, get the location right, and you'll always be able to rent it or sell it for top dollar

I would highly suggest you invest the money to come out to the next summit and meet some of these movers and shakers before you make general statements about the skills of people making serious coin in CA. 

I had to put about $270k into it to deal with all the accumulated problems, which works out to about $900/m over 25 years, or $225/door/m.I don't want to be dense, but I'm aware that BP has a bias towards investors who haven't been in the game long - my 10 years is still a relative newbie.  

Meanwhile, prospects for continued robust job growth moved Seattle-Tacoma and Boston into the second and third spots.Minneapolis-St.

It is going to be a big expenses as you have to pay for storage, sheriff, and mover by law to remove her belonging out.  

My wife and I both owned Toyota Tacoma's.When our first child was coming we sold my Tacoma and bought a Porsche for safety, and the ability to get kids in and out of the back seat.Image can be powerful. 

OR look further out - outskirts of tacoma, and in more rural towns - if you can find someplace that has a viable economy or proximity to larger metro area many such towns also have a shortage of good housing.

WA Building Movers and Contractors.

Its like chess your 7th or 8th move really doesn't matter much since as soon as your opponent (reality) makes it's next move, all of your other moves will become moot.As a buyer of houses in the Houston Marktet for the last 30 years it is the hardest right now to get good deals and for a noob its extremely easy to make a fatal mistake.  

Networking with others in your area who are movers and shakers will be critical to your success.