Buying a turnkey property is the easiest way to get a feel for being a landlord without all the hassle of rehabbing a place.

We'll eek out a 10% cash on cash but will convert a half bath to a full bath to increase the value substantially.

While investing locally is usually the easiest route, SoCal can be challenging with high entry costs and competition (though it’s definitely doable!). 

The easiest way is to do a BRRRR on light-value add properties.

If your investment window is 20 years and you buy todays technology you may well have a better result than waiting 10 years and having half the investment window to buy.

Lost rent from vacancy could easily be several thousand...so, by time you add it all up, it's easily possible for a sewer line replacement to end up costing $40k+ if it involves those types of ancillary expenses.To me, spending a few hundred bucks on a scope to prevent a $40k+ capex on a property worth over half a million is one of the easiest choices I make in the world of REI!

Im really considering half Heloc and half hard cash for a down payment 5%.

I have not seen Eddie's stuff but what I can tell you is that it's probably not worth half that, maybe 25%!

That would be the easiest route with a lot of turnovers 

Not sure if this has been mentioned as I skimmed the last half of the posts.