So numbers haven’t adjusted tremendously.

Great stuff - getting cash flow out of your first property (along with the tremendous learning+experience) is always a home run result

All properties purchased at a large discount therefore leverage will be low. 

Never discount your monthly rate either, give a first month at a heavy discount or maybe even free to help your situation.Hope this helps!

I sell my properties owner finance and has tremendous benefits to the seller 

As this property is fully paid off I feel like the upside could be tremendous if I use the equity correctly.

Don’t get me started on the tremendous opportunity for developers and the more creative minded investors that CA gives us with all these new laws on zoning and ADUs..That’s my answer, I’m from CA and I invest in CA.

Buying real estate without having solid personal finances adds a tremendous amount of risk to your portfolio.2) Ask yourself this question - do you want to invest actively or passively?

I’ll reply with an appraiser’s point of view- many times if something is permitted, an appraiser will require inspections, and if inspections turn up overall inferior work, they’ll either heavily discount the inferior square footage or not count it at all.

Not necessarily a source yet.And some wholesalers are indeed "experts" at locating and securing (via contract) real estate properties at a discount.