Hi Renee,You’ve built an impressive portfolio, managing 100 units in San Diego is no small feat.

In some parts of the sun belt, I have been told that you can collect far higher rents doing Section-8 than you can regular Tenants.

Also, focus on 2 years of job/income stability.Class D Properties:Cashflow vs Appreciation: Typically, all cashflow with little, maybe even negative, relative rent & value appreciationVacancy Est: 20%+ should be used to cover nonpayment, evictions & damages.Tenant Pool: majority will have FICO scores under 560 (almost 30% probability of default), little to no good tradelines, lots of collections & chargeoffs, recent evictions.

Living in a camper van for 3 years while working remotely is impressive — that kind of adaptability definitely carries over to real estate.

And I actually think I have as much fun finding the deals and seeing the transformation of the houses we do as I do collecting the rent checks, that it would be really hard to give that up. 2) How many of those do you have paid off, if any?

It involves much more than collecting rent or throwing up a Craigslist ad every blue moon.

Collecting quarters wasn't worth it.

I had been under the impression that there are products out there where you can put 10-15% down to get in.

It allows them to keep those afloat and can collect fees on that side by retaining ownership of the deal. 

That's how I started, with a company called Flip More Deals (currently called the Growth Collective) they were very hands on and helped me through the entire process and connected me with a lender and gap funder, very hands on you should check them out.