Sounds like you've heard the answer, that YES, this is a sustainable business, but I'd add that you have to play the long game in real estate.

I am really looking for long term and sustainability, though it is not easy to predict. 

Is it possible to use a hard money lender to get the property initially and then somehow transfer to a more long term sustainable loan?  

The reason to think that the US west coast isn't affected by real estate like the rest of the country is because the cities of the west coast are self-sustained to a higher degree than other cities, with truly global economies, and global real estate investment money.

If I was a more experiences investor that had rode the wave of appreciation since 2008, I would be a lot more conservative in my outlook as my goal would now be to protect the wealth I'd already built while aiming to sustain growth.

Now I have about a month and a half to figure out how to sustain myself and my family with starting a business in real estate.

It's not a sustainable situation. 

Sure this may work once but it would be a fluke and is not a sustainable model.Posting this kind of crap is a disservice to those who might read your post and really believe it's possible.

For me his message has seriously resonated, and, without exaggeration - living by those tenets has not only changed my day to day life, it has change the trajectory and scale of my ultimate potential.I think in 10X now.  

My target with debt servicing is that my whole portfolio will be able to sustain itself at 50% - 60% occupancy.