My sister and I have swiftly produced a couple of beginning strategies for our business.

I know I have a different mindset as a small time investor where holding an asset that wasn't producing would make me want to sell.

I personally had to persuade underwriter on my most recent acquisition to use my income history from a previous STR home I had already liquidated to prove that using my same business model (and in the same area) would produce the same results..which they fortunately agreed to in the end.    

In that sense, the Zestimate is very good at predicting values (and from an innovation perspective, downright extraordinary).

In my market in Northern NJ, specifically Bergen county, in the last 2 years intently searching the MLS exclusively, I have only found maybe a hzndful of deals that comfortably produced a Cash on cash return of 8-12%, and one of those I currently have under attorney review.

Fully renovated and now producing cash flow each month.

Since the down payment was not enough to pay off the existing loan, I signed a land contract that gives me the ability to rent out the property and produce monthly cash flow until I refinance to cash out the seller.

It would have produced via both if not for getting hit by the two hurricanes in a fairly short period of time. 

The farmland values in the big grain producing states... that's the canary.

Hi Kimberly,As far as being a client, nothing there would dissuade me from doing business with you.I doubt many people will care either.If California says yes--go produce and make as much as you can.Good Luck!