Are you a Certified Property Manager?

If nothing else, you can charge a premium on rent due to the nature of the business.

This is something a certified inspection can look at. 

You might call this part of the nature of existence and time.

Most will argue that you are much more valuable if you can make it out with a deal to at least talk to people about, but even if you don't have one, come out and just talk to people at the event.The Bay Area is a tougher market than many to wholesale just to the nature of the price point and the amount of marketing Realtors do (I will admit my team personally does thousands of pieces a month).

I have a software development background and had worked on simulators (for traffic analysis) many years ago, so it seemed like a natural way to become more familiar with the interrelationship of various real estate metrics and produce a usable tool.

I did a lot lot of research on the grey and the thing to know is greys can change a lot based on natural light and which way the room faces.

I am risk adverse by nature but enjoy doing calculations and thus taking calculated risk thus here I am now. 

The natural appreciation has been strong enough that we are still holding this property.Lessons learned?

Sill just as many that would suck you dry and spit you out ... that is just human nature ... folks without a conscience still get a RE license, and they don't suddenly grow one after taking an oath on fiduciary responsibility.