My concern about San Jose (as an example) isn't the future demand, but as rent control sweeps over the entire bay area in the next 20 years, it seems that it would stifle appreciation.

Danger Will Robinson. 

That makes me feel like internal house issues would be the main concern.

Determining their concern and changing the structure of your deal to be compliant will be a much safer path than doing this yourself.

Inspection periods are one of the best ways to create delay, if  you are concerned about getting out the deal if things go south.

He also made mention of jerry rigging the oven gas line(which we also expressed concern over) Then they wanted us to fill out a w9 and I let them know the original bid did not included taxes but that I would have to add that.They didn't get back to me all day until hours later and said they want their deposit back and they were cancelling on us. (48 hours before we are to start a 2 week project) I let them know I would have to talk to our crew as I already gave them the deposit and that they booked out 2 weeks of their schedule to work on this job.They called me back and said ok we will keep you on the job but need to delay the startdate for another week....because we are having some other work done first.....To me this last statement they said sounds like total BS.

Hello Everyone, So being in the military has offered me many great opportunities as far as seeing the world is concerned.

The Caribbean is great to invest in but it does have its own dangers and drawbacks such as Hurricanes. 

it seems its not a concern when the property has only one loan.Some questions - 1 - This applies to mortgage loans also - correct?

Select your mentors carefully, they should have some business wisdom, they also need to be current because taking advice from an old guy still doing things the way they did  20 years ago, they are probably out of step and that can be dangerous.