Repairing things (at least in my latest transaction) was based on the Home Inspection.

Anyways, just wanted to share a little bit of my experience, whats the latest on your end?

I've spent years making our latest house modest but beautiful, as it is where we are raising our family  (100% my labor & no additional debt). 

Learn something new every day.Rotten old tree stump that's about 20 feet high falls over and is leaning on our garage (at our latest acquisition).Turns out that we have to pay to have it removed!

Sam and others -The BiggerPockets Mailing list goes out every week with the latest real estate and BiggerPockets news, articles, hot forum posts, and more.

We hope to make our first buy and hold purchase in the next 3-6 months latest.

Also follow @Brandon Turner on twitter for the latest podcast and blog/newsletter posts.

I have more details on my bio, but I have 2 ways of articulating my current gameplan based on timing: 1) in the short-term, my goal is to build out a rental portfolio that earns me $10k in monthly after-tax passive income2) in the long-term, i want this to be a multi-state business whose initial strategy is based on fixing-and-flipping along with rentals.I hope to have enough knowledge & contacts (all my ducks in a row) to buy my first investment property by June 2016 at the absolute latest.

Not only are you dealing with tenant friendly California law, you're dealing with potential San Francisco muni code which probably requires that you commune naked with the tenant and express your mutual respect in each others belief systems while downloading the latest social media app on your iPhones.

Hot markets remind me of: queues around the block to buy say, the latest iphone.