If he would like to enter the commercial retail real estate business we have a beautiful  property in Ohio that needs one more investor.

And as you know if you did this in high prices areas like the Bay area your set for life. you don't need rentals.The beauty of buying a home in the SF Bay Area historically is if you eventually sell it and move to an area with a lower cost of living, the "dead equity" in your SF Bay Area home becomes liquid equity you can use for other purposes.Past performance is no guarantee of future results.

I plan on getting out at the beginning of 2021 and moving back to San Diego where I met my beautiful wife. 

The beauty of house hacking and occupying the unit is less money out of your pocket and the rental income stream that will allow you to save up the funds for your future fix and flip properties. 

There are beautiful new small MF in some areas here, but you’re paying retail new construction prices.

@Todd Dexheimer Well all investors know that the way to acquire more properties I'd by taking out the most out of the bank so you can buy more and more properties come up I get it that some people fear that about definitely that a lot of people made their wealth out of that strategy , the question is if that's only in a strong city  market or even in the suburbsalso that guy had no money in... and a beautiful cash flow [at least that's what he claims ]

@Brian Roberts Welcome...are you in Ashtabula County...beautiful up there on the lake (in the summer) ;) Congrats on getting going on your first deal. 

I’m located in beautiful Lancaster County, PA.

Beautiful! 

It's a beautiful turn of the century duplex that I renovated when I purchased and lived in one of the units then renovated a single family which I later sold.