Which neighborhoods are good bets?

I always tell my owners that your insurance carrier should drop your rate at least 25% because you are only insuring the physical structure of the property, and your appliances.  

The only trick is that you have to be willing to physically live in them for a while. 

I bet you have never sanded sheetrock in your life. 

Hard to bet against appreciation of prime SF peninsula real estate long term.And most importantly - .....Go Giants

.• Maximum sill height above floor: 44 inThe physically smallest windows (w/r to rough opening) you can use would be either a casement window (with egress hardware) or a tilt-n-turn style window (common in Europe).  

So apart from searching BP for investors in your area, how about drive-by's - even contractors (especially those doing reno's) can be a valuable source of information about local investors they know of or have worked for.Hows about dropping into your local Title Co, not a BP resource, but I'll bet they'll be aware of investors who buy from them on a "regular" basis (whatever 'regular" may be in your location).Good luck.

I don't know those guys (I stay away from gurus) but my money is betting they will tell you stuff that will get you in trouble, betting 2 to 1.

In other words, spend a few days on this site reading all you can and I'd bet along with buying J's Book you'll learn a lot more about RE investing than you can learn from any guru, whether they want $1,200 or $25K!

I'll bet good money that there are more than a few similar listings on the MLS where financing would be more welcome, and there may also be seller financing opportunities that make good sense that are less risky than financing auctions.