Hi BiggerPockets community,We are a married couple based in the California Bay Area, both working as software engineers with a combined income of close to a Million USD.

You could ask the Contr to use a flexible compound if this happens again, or maybe even now...https://www.dap.com/products-projects/product-categories/pat...Take pictures of every place it occured....it's easy to forget after a couple years....

As we have all seen, Californians are leaving in droves over the past couple of years, and fleeing to Florida, Texas and yep...Arizona.As long as we continue to stay under LAs housing market for affordability, we are going to continue to net those homeowners wanting an upgrade to a bigger house or lot. 

I've tried a couple - truepeoplesearch, white-ages, property radar, leadsherpa, batch leads...Some services are better than others, but it is a numbers game and you also can cross check between different platforms.

When you have turnover, come live in it for a couple of months.

We are considering joining a couple mentor groups to build relationships with more investors.

A couple problems dividing a property and selling in a “Timely” manner and then picking exchange properties of equal or greater value than the lots you sale.  

I have been part of a regular meetup for a couple years now and it definitely helps ground you in your local market.

So there are a couple of things to think about here:1.

Went to a Tax Sale where the property burnt down a couple days before the sale, yet people bid on it not knowing the property was ashes.