Both location and style are outside of what I thought would have worked well there but you are crushing it.

Thank you in advance for the help.Keep on crushing it!!!

Let's use some of our experiences to teach someone and not just bash them and crush their spirits.

In my opinion, and I was fortunate to see as a CPA my high net worth clients crush it with apartments and also someone who has bought a multi, apartments are hands down the IDEAL investing strategy.

Martin  lots of competition with private or HML in CA has really driven down the cost of capital. lenders have to deploy to make money.in my day in Oakland we were 5 and 15 all day long LOL.. but my day was before most of the younger investors on BP were born.When I look at the Bay area and my life there and being in RE there for all intense an purposes all my business life  started at 18... the biggest meltdown was not the GFC Now I am talking the immediate bay area not Solano or San Joaquin or Sac counties... or Vallejo Suisun area. those got crushed in the GFC just as bad as FLA NV AZThe biggest meltdown came in 1989 to 1992... prices on high end homes in SF and the Peninsula fell by 40 to 50%...

I did it this year and crushed my [insane] goal by August!

He crushes it. 

You are crushing it man

The only thing I could think was if they had some major maintenance items that they took care of which crushed any margins for the year.

He's still crushing his sales goals, so I imagine the company will be OK with that.