A “mentor” to me is my mental manifestation of that old rich guy but in reality is just a funny mental image that represents my plan to grow an educate myself in the business.

I agree with Account Closed I think that you see it is mainly a manifestation of one of the many conflicts of interest between property managers and landlords as opposed to validation that it’s a good business practice for landlords. 

Could these circumstances have been the manifestation of the high water mark for RE in the San Jose area?  

As long as this remains a theoretical problem and doesn't manifest as a real actual problem for someone in WA or the 9th circuit I'm not going to worry about it.The only thing I really don't like about dealing with REO's (aside from the 20 page ludicrously unilateral contracts) is how they try to strongarm me into using their preferred title and escrow services.

He says that his son acquired his useful hearing aid (after another didn't work...and he claims the doctor says he hasn't the physical equipment to hear anything at all in the first place) by some magical manifestation of his son's DESIRE to do so, and not any mention at all that maybe others were familiar with his problem and a network of connections makes solutions much more available.He either makes up other stories or passes them along uncritically. 1937 was a different time so I'm not going to hit him with the racist card, but the "Chinaman" story?

We have not taken that into consideration since that income obviously hasn’t manifested yet.What do you think about our income?

You will have to manifest that deal through creativity and vision.

And would take a couple years to manifest itself if at all.

The reaction was an overspill of the mind, which manifested as shade comments especially on the first page of this thread. 

(It manifests itself as twice as many cars parked on the street, etc. ) The county could deny you that re-zoning.Not to say that there aren't landlords running illegal duplex conversions all over the country....but in Denver, you're not supposed to be able to build a second kitchen in a property zoned as SFR....if there is one, it was done illegally without a permit.