Do you think its worth investing in these older properties in the Bay Area from resale stand-point?

Instead, they typically provide cash for a percentage of your home's value (usually up to 30%) in exchange for a share of future house price appreciation.

My coach says to move by the speed of instruction, but I'm not sure if my own market of Sacramento, California is worth spending a lot of time and money in, especially for rental properties.

Found a unique opportunity that will guaranteed cash flow for the first two years.

Are people really having to give $10k for cash for keys for a tenant to vacate a property in the city of Chicago?

You also make money in the long run not through cash flow, but by the tenant paying down your mortgage for you and covering your expenses (property taxes, insurance, etc).

Are they trying to pull cash-out?

At this point, is it worth it to get my insurance involved to help motivate the HOA to address the issue or will getting my insurance involved slow things down?

I'm going to try out Peoria / Bloomington still because it's the only place I'm familiar with and have enough money to pay cash with.

@Nathan Meeker absolutely agree a good CPA is worth the $$, and was expecting to spend well over 1000 for such services (I spent 1500 last year only to catch a lot of my CPA's mistakes); just sent you a DM, thx