Hi Rusty--im in Santa Barbara CA.

She is the hostess of TLC's "Property Ladder" and started out flipping right in your area of Santa Barbara.

@Barbara G.: Thanks for your reply Barbara!

@Barbara Kennedy Thank you and AWESOME!

@Paul Timmins nice pic with Barbara

Barbara G. 

Andrew Johnson “I use Appfolio out of santa barbara, ca its definitely not free and my property mgmt company passes those costs down to me which I think is around 50-60 bucks a month based on number of units under the service.I am able to see all reports from rent rolls, cash flow statements / trailing 12 month cash flow, tenant ledgers, maintenance requests, dialog between tenants and mgmt staff, resolutions to maintenance requests, move in pictures, move out pictures, or video, and many more features.What I like is that it allows the vendors to be in a dialog/text/chat box so they are prepared (vendor) prior to job assignment with lockbox codes, scope of work and pictures before they even go to the site so we dont waste time figuring things out and run up a huge $$$ bill for lack of efficiency.”

No idea what's important to you, but personally, if I were looking for a new city to settle in (and $600k for a primary), I'd be looking in the towns and cities from Santa Barbara, traveling north for ~150 miles.  

Santa Barbara, CA – Percent Increase in short sales from 2012: 107% 2.

Santa Barbara is probably even worse than San Jose as a rental market which is why I went out of state.