Generally, you can expect credit card activity to be reported to the credit bureaus every 30 to 45 days, usually at the end of the billing cycle. 

Usually, novice investor is asking this question to realtor.Now since you are in San Diego, you should try to "sell" in San Diego and "be creative" in San Diego.If San Diego realtor is also investing OOS then there's no point become realtor in San Diego lol ; sorry but you have to find out market opps in your market, we expect you to exploit the oops and give it to us lol

Unfortunately we hear it all to often and it creates a lot of extra work for the Good GCs out there.

Aaron,Usually after the firt one the next one will be even easier are you going to pull out some equity/cash to buy another one soon.

Tons of rating factors that impact the price from one property to another.I say this without even considering coverage, service, and what you might want as there are usually choices to be made.Your best bet is to work with an independent agent that can provide advice along with multiple options for every scenario so that you can find the best value in each situation.

So, you could set up conditions to try to control potential problems:- Have them pay for monthly walk-thrus to check on condition- How much extra can they afford to pay?

The accuracy rate is usually around 65-75%. 

San Bruno is good, there're few that's being targeted as prime area for flipper (buy 800k sell 1.4m).Around Berkeley is good too especially near the hill.Please do note when asset price is 1 mil, the trajectory of asset appreciation is different than the one below 1 mil.So these area when we said "Berkeley", has large area ranges, usually the higher elevation home is always priced way higher than the downtown.

Now, with borrowing at 6% +, the equity investments just don’t seem to make sense.More telling, perhaps, is that my usual sources of deal flow have not been able to come up with those one off GREAT deals we used to get once or thrice a year.  

Rents on the extra units likely will not pay for your mortgage and you'll need to pay full rent on the unit you occupy.