Half the tenants are section 8 so that has made things easier for rent collection.Here are the numbers: https://www.dropbox.com/s/m9d9qndplgnjxco/Bridgepo...Let me know if you have any questions,Thanks!

My feeling is if you have a choice try to be on one of the coasts for fun and beauty and try to get in the southern half of the state.

I took half my tax refund check and put it toward the mortgage principle. 

Is it a 3 bed 2 bath built in 1990 or newer with a garage and a basement on half an acre for 150,000?

Many 401k plans allow this up to $50k (half your balance up to $50k), and after you pay it back you can do it again.

as happened to your own primary.Without having looked closely at the numbers, it seems that expenses will take up half your rent, and your mortgage will take up the other half, leaving you zero return on your 20% down payment, unless appreciation DOES work in your favor when it comes time to sell.

If your investor is smart, I will have you paint everything and clean the gutters half way and launch a complain, I will then (as the investor) get all my money back plus interests, CSLB will do it for me, all I have to do is launch a complain.

Community banks are typically the easiest way to get these done. 

I had to mop the floor about half a dozen times.

Eventually this is where they will spend half their year, the other half in Seattle area.