And if you open your own shop, there are hours in the chair required to be open to the public so basically, it's a terrible idea.

House is trashed terrible condition but in a B neighborhood.

I would rather own fewer solid properties than 50 or 100 cheaper properties.I hear a lot about California being a terrible place to invest with landlord tenant laws.

So the wage:rent ratio will tighten, and eventually rent to price will be not as terrible but still pretty miserable.

Quote from the article: "Texas cases don’t necessarily have a good and distinct and succinct definition of ‘squatter,’” said Adams. “They kind of tend to use the term on the assumption that everybody already knew what...

I’m very sad to say that he has quit the biz due to illness and I am having a terrible time finding someone to step in his place.

I had a few appraisals come back from Akron/Clv markets and had the appraiser comment that it is a "down market".If you are targeting the 50k purchases with the 20k rehab and then hopping to refi out afterward you are taking a gamble because if you do not get the 100k value after the rehab you can get stuck in the project or be forced to take a mortgage with a terrible rate.Keep your purchases 80k and up and try to make sure your project costs are over 100k on everything so you can be pretty confident that you'll get the 100k value afterward.

.), on paper my properties are functioning at a loss (great for taxes, terrible for DTI). 

The cities public schools are terrible so school rating doesn't matter.

My approach was to listen to a lot of people, include YouTube and influencers who said to buy inexpensive properties OOS to "cash flow" and "California is a terrible place to invest with not being tenant friendly etc".