As an investor, you look at these critical factors and also weigh in things like no rent control in the area, business owners and tenants who cannot afford areas they work in like Santa Monica and Venice having to seek out other areas close in proximity to the ocean, and most signs point to what could be a great launch pad for a city that is well overdue for a new identity. 

An agent in my office had shown some houses to a convicted rapist, and only learned of his identity when the police contacted the broker, luckily prior to her showing him vacant homes he asked to see!

We have two identical couches and a coffee table. 

By the way I respect and admire @Ben Leybovich so much, solely on the fact that he looks identically like my high school English teacher.

It works both ways.If you had a bad experience with contractors, well it was probably your own fault by not being upfront with scope of work, payment terms, how change orders are handled, or trying to use the absolute cheapest price you could to maximize your profit.agree to disagree. i have dealt with contractors of all varieties (big companies, small individuals, licensed, not licensed, expensive, cheap, know it alls, wants me teach them how to do things) and only a couple universal truths have emerged in that time. 1. the construction materials are identical between all of them 2. they all need constant babysitting or something will be done in an inappropriate manner.

., and I don't know, so I'll take a look to see.I still don't get how an identical property next door that's fully occupied keeps getting $14 bills.

The goal is to have leads identical to this one x5 EVERY month.

The identical house across the street is now under contract with an asking price 7-8% higher than what we paid. 

Appreciation is nice but you get the identical appreciation regardless of whether it is 100% financed or 100% owned.The smart investment would be to pull the money and purchase X more cash flow property with 20% down on each.

A layer of anonymity between my family and the tenants.This is not about hiding my identity, I realize that anyone can look at the public property records.