It will allow him/her to spread out the recognition of capital gain over time for tax purposes. 

Are there areas/cities more open to multifamily rezoning compared to others?

When you researched markets like Austin las Vegas Miami, those markets have higher land cost and are more cyclical in nature tend to have larger price swings compared to regions with lower land costs.

So it serves multiple purposes and I would strongly encourage it

We recommend you get management contracts from several PMCs and compare the services they cover and, more importantly, what they each DO NOT cover.

It won't be as promising; the saturation of this thematic investing choice has defeated it's purpose.

You have to be purposeful, but it's the best method of building business.Make a list of 50 people that know, like, and trust you.

Ensure your flip profits exceed the LOC costs, maintain a financial buffer, and compare it to private or hard money loans.

It isn't the metric you can talk about on a national scale, but if you keep buying the same product in the same area it is a very easy quick and dirty method to know how you are doing compared to other buys. 

CA has inverse values compared to most of the nation..