It's easier to find a buyer if you have a deal.A lot of people think you need to know what your buyers want, and that is true, but you can bet there are plenty of buyers for the basic 3/2/2 1,500 sq. ft. house (with an ARV that is below the median value for homes in your market).  

I have the understanding that 2% is the ideal amount to charge for rent, does that hold true for single and duplexes?

So true. 

This shouldn't be an issue with a true service dog.

If that is a true reflection of what this park is like it is no wonder that he hasn't paid his taxes and is facing foreclosure!

What hit home was the statement that typical diversification, which I had been reading quite a bit about lately, was not true diversification.

Whether the heart attack story is true or not, it seems like an excuse.Back in November, just a day or two past the first of the month, one of my tenant's suffered a serious sickness and was hospitalized. 

@Clay SmithVery true, but I think I might work an area that I am very familiar with and can work some contacts where I grew up and with less competition but maybe in some time I will come play with the big boys. 

Would seem you'd need to get out of the actual city into the greater bay area to get away from that, how many true SFHs are rented out and how many units are post 1979 actually within the city?

That is actually true.