Your Cash Flow drops to $197.55 per month.The final thing I would recommend is to shop around for your Refi Lender first (before you purchase a property). 

I'm excited to be here.You are right, Seal Beach and Rossmoor are both great communities with desirable locations as they are conveniently located to shopping, major freeways, great schools and of course, the beautiful Pacific Ocean.

Using the same people will help bring down costs.ps I would NEVER shop for quality repair people on craigslist.

Right now, though, I really think you might be served better by tunnel-vision and those books will start you off tomorrow on a one-stop shop. 

**The strategy I'm trying is to prepare plans and permit applications with architects, then shop those around to GCs. 

If you must provide you can get a mini one for like $30, less if you shop secondhand.

Ask your tenant to push a shopping cart of groceries out of a store or similar and excuse themselves based on life's challenges, see how those business owners handle it.  

They were probably paying under market rent, so when they started shopping it would be hard to find a new place at similar rate.

Financial loss would still be zero but you'd look like a used car salesman who runs a chop shop.

This ~2500 sq ft Victorian duplex on ~5,000 sq ft lot, adjacent to Steelworks lofts, has more than 3br/2ba in each unit, some extra space, nice size backyard, and a quick walk to Emeryville shopping centers and some new development.