I’m not for putting all of one’s eggs in one basket, but $300K could get you a significant property perhaps size enough where property management made sense.

Definitely not placing all my eggs in one basket without a back up. 

Im checking a list in a county where I live and im already up to 3k how good are these lists, do the trees bear fruit or am a wasting Fiji water to see them grow?

Moreover, California is such a basket-case politically, we should enjoy the fruits of California's idiocracy for years to come. 

The condo route sounds very fruitful .

I had all my eggs in this basket so I couldn't move on until this was sold.

Now I'm going to take some of that money and start buying franchises because I don't want all of my money tied up in one basket.

Nowadays I have a roster of probably 30 vendors that I can reach out to (and sometimes I blast through all my options for a particular problem).The biggest challenge is find good handymen for doing low hanging fruit (fix outlets, fix sink, change light fixture, spackle/paint).

DO NOT put all of your eggs in this basket.

And I LOVE to show tenants that the rent increase is due to the tax increase after the latest “park, school, underwater basket weaving scholarship” fund/levy/bill was passed.