If he wants a permanent home, he should make better choices and buy something.

Or has your experience in RE just lead you to believe that it is an advantageous choice?

I think grey would be a good choice.

My plan is to purchase large multi-family so an LLC would seem like the best choice for my investing entity.

Since the majority of offers are cash offers, it is appropriate to suggest that majority of buyers are financially stable and can afford the property they purchased and will not go into default therefore not causing a depression in home values and not Bursting the Bubble.The context of these two extreme markets, if I understood correctly, can now help me frame the analysis of the Bay Area Markets and choose as strategy that is appropriate for my market of choice. 

You have a few choices, and in all cases you want to have full-disclosure to your bank lender about what you're trying.

But typically rolling over old 401k into a new 401k is not a good idea because you can rollover into an IRA instead and have more control and investment choices than your current 401k offers.You can also rollover into self-directed IRA and then invest in alternative assets.

When tenants have plenty of choice, they ain't going to jump through hoops they think are unnessacary.Especially at this time of year!

Multiple choice question:I will do it for 300.I will do it for 500.I will do it for 800.I will not do it in principle. 

We were in a negative equity position with it and had to make a choice of either renting it "under the table" or we were going to walk away from the property and let it go into foreclosure.