Find out the GIS map, is off by about 30 feet unfavorable to me, on the fat side of the Triangle shaped property. 

They based my qualifications more on my experience and ability to attract high paying rents rather than my DTI, W2 income, etcAlthough with more unfavorable terms (5.5%, 25 year amort, ballon payments, etc) They closed fast and were easy to understand

Here in South Florida, Miami specifically, most of these new construction condos are bought by foreign investors, mostly from Latin America; the dollar has strengthen a lot in the past year, thus decreasing the purchase power or the interest to invest in dollars for these investors and creating a market with lots of new units with no buyer or with buyers that gave a deposit and now have to close, but may not be willing to do so due to unfavorable exchange rates.

We ran into this issue with many lenders and unfavorable terms.

I know that a smart investor has always attempted to project and pro-rate all such costs, but there's always the possibility that too many unfavorable scenarios could play out at once any you'll run out of money and get into trouble?

Using a WY LLC that is foreign registered in another state is probably not a good solution as not only will you have to pay an LLC registration in both states, and more importantly, a judge may decide to apply the LLC laws of either state the most unfavorable for you.So the most often used setup is to have a single member LLC in the state where the property is located.

References provide insight about character also...favorable and unfavorable!!!

I stay in the first-time homebuyer/workforce housing markets and tend to do okay when the environment is unfavorable. 

All I know about San Diego real estate investing at this point that you have much higher prices and some unfavorable laws for landlords. 

I just don't know if I'd ever truly invest long long term in CA/OR/WA MFR with rent control, low cash flow, and other unfavorable scenarios for landlords.