Each city gives you different headaches, forcing you to shed money like crazy.Plan about $200k for site built, expect rent of around $2500/month, plus appreciation of about $400k, just estimate.For Hayward, doing a main house expansion (900 to 2000 sf) and an ADU (1000 sf) at the same time.

Also, if we buy new homes for the expansion and then sell them to consumers will this disqualify us?  

The reason that I (and a lot of others) feel comfortable with increased competition within the tenant base is the expansion trajectory of the college.

For Marin the lot is very large 10,000 square ft so expansion is an option.

. $2,600 a month in rent for the first year, this is likely to increase with metro expansion and new development, but seems to be the average about now.

Once we start to see some wage growth there will be a lot more room for expansion, but that has been a long time coming.Remember that analysis paralysis is a real thing.

I initially chose the Atlanta market to start my RE journey because at the time it boasted a strong and diverse economy with rapid job growth, good rent to price ratios, fast growing population, new developments, school expansions, and more.

They also added an expansion to the community of $120k of a new common element without receiving permission from any homeowner. 

We could never have done that just by working.is this equity from expansion or a good amount due to appreciation ? 

There is the possibility of expansion as we are going to get about 15 additional Acres that have not been developed yet.