New Home: I would need to dump some of my brokerage accounts for the downpayment(so some capital gains taxes would need to be paid to finance the downpayment on the new house) or if I sold our "current residence(2nd home)" I wouldn't need to.I understand the tax incentive of selling within 5 years of living there for 2 years, however, the cash flow seems larger then what I would get taking the money and investing in new RE in the future. 

Just real top line this seems a bit clunky. 

BM navejo white or SW dover white seem to be the go to colors for that group... but you might not want to be in that group.

The company seems to be all over it so hopefully this gets repaired but we will see.

Throughout the process, everything seemed fine until we got to a point where he kept pushing back closing because he didn't have the documents prepared and then when we finally sent them, he expected me to sign them without having time to have attorney review them.

That strategy seems most feasible for me.

What they see is what they get and they seem be ok with that since I’ve gotten amazing deals way under market value.

It seems to me that rents have not quite caught up to home prices so I probably wouldn't be able to cash flow until I've lived in the property myself for a couple years. (2) I'm also debating how big of a project to take on for my first time.

It sure seems that more small industrial is being replaced by apartments in the East Bay.

To note, it seems the only zip codes where the big rent disparities exist is middle and upper class neighborhoods (this makes me think HUD is trying to incentivize section 8 in better neighborhoods/school districts).