Are you in an area where land is very valuable leaving you with less to depreciate?

This could easily cost you $10’s of thousands if you plan to stay in the home 5+ years when you return. 

Hello, Thank you for taking the time to read this.

I just re-read and realized you're talking about getting loans for lien position 2, is that correct?

Without the high leverage you reduce the top source of return in CA RE which is achieve via the appreciation on a high leverage property.  

It's a fairly unregulated space (charging grandma $750 to puts around for 3 hours, after moving the old box from the horizontal sensor, which was the only problem with the garage door to begin with), so some combination of carefully reading reviews (you have to actually read them to make sure it's not 200 fake reviews), and maybe not giving them the full contract all at once, is in order. 

Obviously this could happen anywhere but I know it can be particularly bad for landlords in certain places like mine. 

I think the real estate professional strategy works if it is your primary source of income.   

If you believe that is true, please cite a source.

They claim to charge in the "high 4 figures" - one web source says it's $4800 - to join their group and get access to their network and resources.