Always invest in your backyard @Dina Mazur - you have a huge home-field advantage I would not give up.

Definitely not, IMO, Been there and its a waste of time and money and risk unless you have dedicated plan to take advantage of having it.

I don't think anyone goes to CA to invest, but a lot of residents invest local to keep the home-field advantage which is a valid point..

It's good practice in making the calculations needed to decide whether or not to pull the trigger on a potential deal.You soon learn that starting off as a Doctor is less advantageous than starting off as a Janitor, because the game presets your income and expenses based on the job title.

My investment strategy did not change a bit, but I learned of this strategy and took advantage of it to save huge on taxes and wanted to share this with the investor community. 

I had a distinct advantage over my competition who had to do their own courthouse searchs.

Hello @Daniel Reed,The supposed advantage of multi-family properties over single-family homes is misleading when you look at financial performance.

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The advantage if needed by calling it an investment home is that you can use the potential income from the property to help your debt to income ratio where you cannot do this on a second home. 

There are many great advantages to being a buyer or seller.