Knowing you have a loan in place where you only have to put 3% in is fantastic and should be a huge encouragement to you. 

Someone with a high risk tolerance is playing a different game than someone with a low risk tolerance.

I'm very young to the game of renting and life itself really, I know that the grass is grown up a lot and I'm unsure if that will cut down on the true cost of it, but I assume roughly $3000-4500 for the 1.25.

I have been seeing a lot of deals going down in the game.  

Right now I'm just getting the fundamentals down and working on my mindset (The Miracle Morning is a game changer).

I'm glad that you folks are into the rental game there in the East Bay, but it's not for me.

You don't have any money in the game, and then a large repair comes up.

Glad to see the heavy hitters chiming in . I

Just starting out in the real estate game as an active duty Army Officer in Germany, so it’s hard to trust “out of state” realtors that I’ve never met.

What do you mean by "active", wanna be investors or people who have actually put money into the game?