As long as the USA chugs along with its recovery, and we benefit from unexpected bonuses like the gulf states willing to kill oil prices, we should be good here in the Bay Area for the next 2-3 years.  

As an added bonus if the property has been a rental for a while you can then 1031 the proceeds into a new investment.  

If not just try to get the ground as a bonus, just my .02

Thank you for the warm welcome, it's an incredibly encouraging introduction to the seemingly generous community.

Please don't misunderstand, I am very grateful to the site and all the generous people here.

I totally dislike a new tenant lease up fee & would do anything I could to find a way to give bonuses for resigning leases, meeting income benchmarks, and reduction of turnover.

I've added a third bedroom upstairs and there's a fourth "bonus" room in the basement that is truly a bedroom, but it doesn't have windows.

I put all the supplies I can on the card to meet the spending requirements for the bonuses.

I think is just about not giving up and tasting does first deals, keep your mind focus. you want a story when I was in college I taught I should get into real estate my parents, owned property and I taught could be good at selling it so it turned out I was a not that great after I became a agent took me like 9 Months to get my first deal in escrow and it fell threw finally I closed 1 deal only one in 14 months  and then I realize this wasn't for me so I started trying to put investors together and doing more of the numbers for Investors and that's how after college I became a Investment Analyst for a Private Equity firm,  by far the youngest in the firm, this was during the crash oh my things were busy and money was being made in the investment sector, buying tapes and building and I was creating 20-30 Analysis a day I was exhausted working 80+ hours per week, but the money was great and I started buying some properties of my own with my bonuses, so in 2014 I decided to leave my job, and move to San Diego and became a full time Investment Consultant at only 29 years old I own, several rentals in 4 states and help people with there Real estate Investments, large institutions  or just small first time investors. 

Not to mention the HUGE bonus of being able to save money not paying a broker fee!!