Its average residential property value has fallen in inflation adjusted dollars.  

I have a B2B account with Crate & Barrel, too but I find them much more expensive.  

Same goes for number of LLCs and what to fund them with, since bear in mind that CA tends to be more cumbersome and expensive to have LLCs than other states.California is generally more cumbersome than other states when it comes to taxes and filings.

If you’re going conventional on a second home, you might want to consider putting even more down and make sure that your debt to income ratio is <41%, and credit at or above 780, ideally, as the GSE’s just made changes to the Loan Level Pricing Adjustment (LLPA) just got even more expensive effective 05.01.2023 but most lenders will either incorporate this into their pricing or will then. 

The unit was wrecked but I was sold a rehab project that would be much more expensive so that the unit could be converted into a bigger living space; the idea being that we could get more rent out of it (close to $1200 vs. $800/mo).The rehab was supposed to take ~ 3mo.

I saw 1099s between 28k-31k and 12k in expenses i.e. taxes and HOA.

Yes, the $230 is after all expenses including vacancy and capex (as Zach mentioned). 

Hi Bhavik, being in Vancouver as well we both know it's one of the most expensive markets in N America.

I have been working on a post about insurance and it is very complicated.Proper is very expensive but it is very comprehensive.

It comes from signing services which only pay between $70-$85 per signing while they get paid $125-$150 total on average and upwards of $400.