The technology and support nationwide is also top of the line. 

It's highly correlated to the property's value (cost of rebuilding) and ours are mostly on the lower end as far as nationwide comparisons.

Some people are expecting outstanding gains similar to 2012 to 2017. 

@Aaron Campbellas @Jake Hottenrott mentioned, there is not much benefit in having a local accountant these days of technology.For example, my firm is in Houston, but our clients are nationwide, and most of them have never visited our office.

I bought it through a  bank auction which they were trying to just cover the outstanding balance.

The service from Pioneer has been outstanding and I have no regrets, thus far.

There could also be outstanding violations for unpaid city imposed grass cutting/trash removal etc etc.

However, historically San Diego is outstanding for appreciation (both rent and market).  

We ended-up using Richard Mahony who did an outstanding job for us.

Once you begin to see you're credit score improve and outstanding debt decrease.