Market OverviewThe Los Angeles office market is comprised of 210.4 million square feet in twenty-one geographic concentrations ranging in size from the 38.9 million square foot Downtown submarket to the Mid-Cities submarket, which accounts for 1.8 million square feet.

Taxes for two houses twenty minutes apart can be wildly different.Major costs over last 3 years on 5 homes:$10K in missed rent leading to and waiting for eviction$3K Eviction costs (lawyers, travel, writ, etc.)$2.5K additional lost rent due to 4 month instead of 2 month property turn$3.8K for a new furnace$7.4K for a new HVAC$700 for a bathroom re-pipe$12K turn on large home, included new high quality carpet and full repaint$5.5K in unnecessary plumbing issues caused by tenant in eviction (no way to recover costs)$1.5K in utility bills during vacancy or owner responsibilities$900 for a refrigerator$4.8K for concrete piers to shore up a foundation$5.6K for a roof (insurance claim)$5.2K for another roof$1.3K for new AC line set (punctured in second roof replacement)$1.6 for a water heater$1.3 for a water heater$2K for a water heater$1.7K for new water line from meter to house… this actually isn’t everything but I’m getting depressed.That’s $70.8K which was money that never made it to me, I didn’t expect to spend, or thought I had more time.

However, being twenty years old, it is hard to partner with somebody because they think I don't know what I'm doing; they're correct for the most part.

 Say they have been in business for twenty years but nobody can share any experience with them.

Smaller multi-family is significantly more common in the Northeast, Midwest, and Western cities who had their economic boom in the roaring 1920s-60s and thus, tons of high density zoning was developed across the country (but not the South).

I don’t expect markets will “roar” for several years.

@Matt 'Roar' Gardner, good to see you here! 

If both felonies were in the 90's, then the problem youth thing makes sense, but he is a repeat offender twenty years later.

I invest in Jackson because this is where I have lived for the last twenty years.

Some of the cautions:The fraudsters – who may or may not be affiliated with the company – persuade independent life insurance agents to sell promissory notes, luring them with lucrative commissions of up to twenty or even thirty percent.