Investors coming out of the San Francisco, San Jose, Sacramento markets can experience lower entry pricing for single family investments.

In your experiences what websites or software works well for getting leads with accurate data?

I have zero experience with this but how would you deal with electric and other utilities? 

And can you tell me your experience with them.

I agree, although in my experience most often when people hear that "P" word they draw back and.... ruminate on "loosing" a % of there company, investment, cash-flow or profits. 

Who dose Non qm HELOC loans and what Bank have you had great experience with?

It will have everything required and you can add on to it based on your experiences. 

Based off your first house hack, would you say that the deal you took was worth it in the end, maybe based off the experience or could you have found better? 

Side note: I've been seeing recently in the CA market, its become saturated with "flippers" who want to land their first deal and don't mind overspending on a potential flip just to get experience.

Your experience matches my expectation.