. $700/month HOA fee may deter buyers, elongating your resale timeline, and could push your ARV closer to the lower end of your range.

Keep pushing on this—you’ve got a property with a lot of potential.

If it’s not then it should be a no brainer to get your $ back @Chris Seveney  I know there were liens because I saw them on Propstream and when I pushed the wholesaler on the issue he confessed (two days before the closing date) that there were a Few liens on the property.     

I would like to push it out to 45-90 days.

If you can take 8 properties and move them to 3 bigger & better one's great, I would push you further and say take it to 2 even better one's.  

Luckily I didn't because it's great now...but I didn't know that at the time.So I'm going to push back on the numbers people and say I don't think you're looking at the big picture and I also don't believe your numbers protect you from failure or guarantee success.

I thought that curtains over blinds was something that a lot of the STR gurus pushed. 

Recent solds are pushing $328/sf up to $413/sf for houses nearby that are built in the 1980's...

BP has done such a great job of promoting SFR investing to the masses, that those masses have pushed up real estate prices to where it's now DIFFICULT to cashflow right away.Keep going, but understand you won't get rich in real estate overnight - it's a long-term wealth building strategy.For the short-term, recommend joining a few in-person investor meetings if possible, otherwise online ones.

You want a hustler, not a top performer, if you want check-ins.I appreciate the candor and would definitely agree that my framework is all in theory until I can get a proof of concept for these out of state deals.I like your idea of pushing my boundaries in CA.