The main reason is rent growth has exploded in the three major urban cores Oakland, San Jose and San Francisco since 2010; averaging 6.25% YoY according to RealPage. 

The main factor likely has to do with the lack of access provided by the owner/tenants.

,mainly because there's enough equity in it for me to purchase additional homes. i could do a cash out refi on it, but decided i might as well cash out and invest the money in a different area compared to where the house currently is.ThxMarcus

The main one is failure to pay rent.

@Braden AndersonI use the addresses is the 123 Main st LLc

I have also just started my real estate career (main job is a teacher) and don't have many contacts for lenders, contractors, etc.

I would love to get any referrals I can at this point, my real estate involvement at this point is mainly intellectual and I will definitely need to start growing my contacts list.

Population and Job Growth are the main Key.

Since your main income isn't tied to CA and you plan to have profits coming in from OOS rentals, I bet you'd save money on state income taxes by no longer being a CA resident. 

Those were my main two things to get done according to him.