As Ryan said, the local groups are excellent.

@Ryan Heinz you won't be taking advantage of the power of the VA loan.

They are dealing with real and sometimes fairly impossible choices right now.

@Ethan McRae Best choice is to talk to a lender that likes to help first time investors.

Learned from this project that choice of contractors can greatly effect profitability due to time and cost.

Don’t make choices from fear but from what your data and personal situation are.

Learned from this project that choice of contractors can greatly effect profitability due to time and cost.

They are indeed fortunate to have you as their landlord.I am a tenant, in Colorado, who *will* be able to, and will, pay my rent for April.I can assure you, based on the constant, ever more hopeless, dismal, conversations circulating around the neighborhood by tenants from every nearby rental property, tenants would appreciate knowing where they stand ,rather than, perhaps, even feeling they have no choice but to move themselves out, ahead of perceived legal action by  their landlord.These are reliable tenants, with *years* of paying their rent on time, quiet, respectful tenants, who, for the most part, have landlords that are newer owners, less than a year, of the property they have been renting for 8 or more years.

@Justin Jones   As others have said you have some great choices.   

Originally posted by @Ryan Henderson:Hi all, I've been wanting to get involved in the LA multi family game for a while now but I haven't found any properties that would cash flow well enough for me to put down 200K.