Granted, the Bay Area is not recession proof and will have its fair share of dips and blips - but the forces driving it are far from standard, requiring an evolving perspective and altogether informed investor type. 

This might involve selling, refinancing, or changing your investment strategy based on the evolving market conditions.

@Coleman Kerr, This post will be fun to watch evolve :).

Most of the time there's a trajectory that starts out (hopefully when you're young) with high leverage and great returns, low cash flow, and evolves into low leverage, lousy returns but great cash flow as you get older.

To see how things evolve!

Don't trust evolve.

.- Goal #3 Evolve and Scale: Evolve and diversify my real estate investments strategies to help my portfolio grow and scale. - Goal #4 Become an Real Estate Investment SME: This obviously won't happen over night and will most likely take a decade or two to achieve.

@Carlos Medina@Jay HinrichsMy strategy here has evolved.

AaronIf I could give anyone advice in that regard it would be that your should never be concrete in an ever evolving market.

@Mindy Jensen my calculation has evolved over the past year as I’ve focused on this quite a bit.