I am happy renting an apartment for $3000 now, with around 10 minutes bike ride to work.My question is: would you recommend me to:1. buy a single family home in South San Jose, drive an hour to work every day.

At this stage of the market I'm putting a lot more emphasis on debt service coverage ratio (a measure of risk) than cap rate or cash on cash return, at least in my own analyses.Also, since this question frequently comes up with owner-occupied properties, even though you're going to live there I'd analyze all the units as if you're not going to live there so that you can look at it on an investment basis compared to other properties, rather than mixing in your own personal tax/financial situation into the property analysis.

Have a look at BP's blog where new articles are published every day: https://www.biggerpockets.com/blog 4.

Have a look at BP's blog where new articles are published every day: https://www.biggerpockets.com/blog 4.

As Is contracts are renegotiated Every Day.  

If it’s a state by state basis, Oklahoma is the location.

Have a look also at some of Biggerpockets blogs, there are new articles published every day!

I have a mainly STR portfolio but we started a management company that has a half dozen full or close to full time workers because we felt that at the time the 3 STR’s we had was so much work we needed to either go bigger and outsource or stop because it was driving us crazy we also have basically 90+ percent occupancy year round and have check in’s and outs basically every day.

That way, we can all give you feedback if your expectations are realistic or not:)Many novice landlords expect their PMC to look at their single property everyday and babysit it for many hours each week - and forget they often shopped for the cheapest PMC they could find.

When your equity increases through appreciation it does so on a one to one basis...as in, every dollar increase in PV increases your equity that same dollar.