The house is in Northern California and we live in Pennsylvania.

Finally, anyone successfully investing in self storage in Philadelphia, PA or nearby region?

My concentration for research has been in Pennsylvania (New Castle mainly), and I'd like to form a group to accelerate our growth and understanding.

By mid November we received a letter from landlord tenant court notifying us that the property management is taking us to court for non payment of oct rent, now mind you in pa if license and inspections deemed a property not up to code the rent cannot be collected while in violation of said codes, they were not up to code by November either, so any who we went to court showed them our evidence and explained why we were not continuing on to live there, the ruling was withdrawn without prejudice?

Also want to know if the father needs to be a US citizen or permanent resident, as my dad is from a different country but I'm a permanent resident in PA.

That's great you've narrowed your focus into Philadelphia, PA.

Also want to know if the father needs to be a US citizen or permanent resident, as my dad is from a different country but I'm a permanent resident in PA. 

Do you think it would serve me better to invest in a smaller and more affordable area like reading pa?

I have 2 properties in Schuylkill county PA which I'm thinking about refinancing so I can pull out the equity in them and purchase another property.

In my state (PA), there is no difference in the rate (millage) one pays for a residential versus a commercial property.