I am still short consumer spending and commercial non residential RE.

I feel one of the main factors for this is the time we are spending on activities that historically have not been very time consuming.

Take $1000 and see the manager for consumer loans of a major bank like Bank of America or Wells Fargo or Chase or Citibank.Ask them to consider you for $1000 personal loan with $1000 security in a CD.

I've been contemplating if I should pause heavily paying down my student loans to save up for a down payment on a property to invest? My hopes are to speed up the process of paying down my debt...but I haven't found a...

Our PM software (Appfolio) allows for rent to be paid by credit card (as does most consumer payment software like Cozy).I see a lot of people giving advice on their new higher qualifications and would ask how much vacancy they are willing to have to find an applicant that may never come along. 

Typically they are paid by the lender with funds that otherwise would have been spent on marketing and middle management sales staff, not by the consumer. 

And AB1482 only allows you to raise the rent "up to 5% plus the applicable Consumer Price Index (CPI) or 10%, whichever is lower."  

Other option is consuming information that everybody has access to and all the mechanics which are useful only up to a point. 

I don't put too much effort into it, because I don't think the consumer gives it too much weight.So my advice is to just have a nice looking website with a few testimonials and perhaps an "about me" section and perhaps a value proposition. 

I hope you find it useful.Retail Real Estate and the COVID-19 CrisisRetail has developed a serious image problem in the past decade-- one that will be further complicated by the shock to the economy and consumer behavior caused by COVID-19.