I'm not able to buy multi-family on my own definitely not in California, maybe the Midwest but I'm talking more about 2 to 5 units not commercial like an apartment building.

Frankly, it is a hassle trying to coordinate between three schedules, and a lot of prospective Tenants are simply not able to "see through the dirt and clutter", imagining their own furnishings in place anyway.

Connected with two contractors that helped on many of the projects that I was not able to do.

But essentially look for giant spaces, giant bedrooms where maybe there could be 2 instead of 1.

We use the lease option strategy so I am not able to tell you how well straight rentals do there.

Most buyer agencies have access to the entire market there are some exceptions (unlisted properties, pocket listings) but it's very rare that we are not able to represent buyers in any listing they share with us.

If he asks why tell him to go ask the idiots in charge that try to "help" renters by making rules that make landlords not able to take chances on problem tenants.   

The industry seems to have divided itself in two: 1) The giant mega-HMLs who really have no competitive advantages except price and are absolutely killing each other racing to the bottom over rates, and 2) everyone else.I really haven’t seen anything change much.

I know a lot of the houses here were built in the early 1900's, I am not sure how many giant complexes were built back then.

In earlier post I already covered use of solar panels, you only need a few BILLION sqft of them, so maybe turn AZ, NM and NV into a giant solar farm?