E Equity, how much of the home will you own on day one.  

OOS BRRRs are the devil's juice on this forum, but if you set yourself up properly with contracts, etc., you will come out on top just take a bit longer so you need to underwrite that in mind.If the former, I would do a combination of fixed income, private lending, and note buying and trade the arb.

Dealing with PG&E to relocate the meters due to proximity to gas meters.

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@Marc Zak Using an LLC for each property provides strong liability protection by isolating risks to individual assets, with income and expenses flowing through to your personal taxes on Schedule E.

As eric pointed out, someone who lives in Phila will have to be registered as a manager of the property to obtain a rental license - usually a PMPersonally if you're looking to target SFH I would recommend: Roxborough (for 3+ bedroom - there is a large saturation for 1-2 bed apartments in area), East falls, E and W Mount airy (need to be proficient in neighborhood to know where the good and not so good blocks are, and far NE philly.

I'll wrap this post by pinging two other Japan-based American investors for their thoughts (until they actually tell me to stop doing this): @Steven E.

I know that the general guidance is that emergency funds aren't to be invested, but given our financial security and the fact that we already have a personal e-fund in a safe, non-volatile location, would it still be crazy/unwise to invest this 15k in an S&P500 index fund in a brokerage? 

Quote from @Greg Scott: Quote from @Derrick E.: I always play it by ear.

Thanks @Kerry Baird, I was talking with ridge lending and they have recently stopped the all in o e heloc product.