Just food for thought. 

Putting 5% down and buying a property a year will allow you to acquire properties quickly while still scaling wisely.Take all of this with a grain of salt, it's solely what I would do in your position.

We typically do a happy hour at a local brewery or rent a suite with catered food/drink at a local baseball game. 

You make sure your family has food and a roof overhead. 

I still love it- great music and food, good biking and climbing and world class kayaking. 

Maybe food for thought on the next time.

FYI - Many of the answers in this thread are ChatGPT AI-generated answers - take with a grain of salt this suddenly discovered "expertise".

If it's not food, transportation, housing, or ABSOLUTE necessities, don't spend money on it.

@Jose Aguilar, fellow Cali landlord/house hacker here.Firstly, take advice from out-of-staters with a grain of salt.

You have to take this post with a grain of salt but I have a lot of people that ask me where I buy and where I don't buy.For the most part, I invest in Red states, meaning states that tend to vote for Republican candidates but let me add a few layers to this:1.