Comparatively if you get 5% appreciation on a property that is worth about 1.2M that is 60,000 per year on paper. 

What are your expenses compared to income?

When running numbers on a house hack include how much you are currently paying for rent (or how much you would pay to rent a comparable property) vs how much of the PITI and budgeting expenses are left for you to cover.

.- Work with the best PM company you possibly can for the units you don't live in and compare the units of work involved in your management of the professionally managed units vs your self-managed units. 

This can give you a spectrum of costs that you can cross reference to your comparable sales research.

Quote from @V.G Jason: Quote from @Carlos Ptriawan: Quote from @Marcus Auerbach: @Carlos Ptriawan yeah very low price, but would not be my choice of neighborhood.. one thing that I do notice from bay area (highest land value) and OOS property (lowest land value area) is that, home actually has more intrinsic value when located out of state, same house like that in our market is having 15 times the price, which means we only buying the land while the house itself is in much worse condition than comparable OOS property.So if someone like me that's more liberal and can accept to live in any neighborhood, I could really have a good primary house to live in out of state, for a very low price point.  

You should do a careful financial analysis to see how much rental income you might make compared to the expenses and potential challenges of being a landlord in California.

The average family now has to fork over an extra $1,000 per month for their daily expenses compared to 2020.

One thing to note when comparing quotes (I would recommend getting a couple).

You can get a great deal on a town home right now compared to where prices were 18 months ago, and they make great rentals.