I’d be careful throwing around numbers like “the California housing market went down by about 35%”CA is a huge state with a wide variance in prices - but the Bay Area was most certainly not hit as hard as you suggest. 

The distance real estate crowd is definitely saturating any market that's not in CA.

A lot of legit HMLs in California are real estate brokers, not licensed lenders, and this is acceptable in California. 

I'm an aspiring real estate investor in Fresno, CA.

Hello Biggerpockets,I am looking to buy a house in the California Bay Area using my VA loan.

If you were in California I'd warn that buildings from that era fare very poorly in earthquakes unless they have been retrofitted. 

Not sure where in California you're located but I'm having people over my place Oct 25, and flying my contractor down to do a Q&A.

So Steven King and the Game of Thrones guy will be fine, but the one-time author can have a hard time of it, since by the time we can count the income, most of that income is gone.#1 thing I see landlords get wrong is Schedule E box 2, "Fair Rental Days."

I have a tenant who always pay rent late, the rent is kind of low for a single three bedroom house in Hacienda Heights, CA.

I’m an investor looking for flip properties in Southern California.