I've bought numerous properties, all utilizing seller financing of one sort or another.

Give up on my dream for keeping this as my retirement property and use the new equity to go to war.

That could be determined by numerous factors which I haven't seen a study yet as this was reported Monday.Anyways when you try to have a property for LTR in cities with school rating higher than 7, the economic doesn't work.

As @Joe Funari mentioned there are numerous free groups to attend here as well. 

I'm specifically looking for someone well versed in San Francisco laws as there have been numerous intricacies over the years.

I offered to have all the suspect insulation removed and proceeded to do so but the buyer backed out anyway, spooked by the word "asbestos" which isn't even a health threat unless it's disturbed and it was in the crawl space, not a livable area of the home.Next contract, the inspector brought the code book and proceeded to list numerous nit-picky issues that were totally different (apparently missed?)

I'm worried I won't be able to take out a loan amount that's big enough to purchase another home in LA/OC if I already have a 700k loan...I know that the home prices in LA/OC are outrageous, but I've heard numerous times that I should invest in areas where I live close by.

Avoid the war zones.

Most likely inappropriate, but NUMEROUS.

Personally, my experience is in North Carolina and Florida and despite numerous claims of "over-saturation" my clients have performed very well.