Hi All,I want to first start out by saying thank you to the many of you that I have had the chance to connect with through Bigger Pockets, both over lunch/coffee and here online.With that being said, over the past two years, my wife and I have virtually eliminated all of our "bad" debt and currently saving capital for our first real estate investment purchase.We have truly been committing ourselves to better understanding the in's and out's through our own research and are getting much closer to finally taking action.I am from San Diego, recently moved to Orange County, and I'm sure as many of you know the entry level capital required for investing in CA is quite high due to the cost of living (I could be completely mistaken as I only know the OC & SD market to an extent).

Good tennat have no issues being on M2M where as bad tenants avoid them like the plague.

The stress of chasing a deal is much worse than the stress of letting a potential bad deal go.3.)

Just be careful because there is good leverage and bad leverage.

That being said, guys get hired all the time who have bad histories and some work out and some don't.

Some members on here have local meetup groups so it might not be a bad idea to join a few of them to network with investors in the area as well. 

Since I'm eager to make my first deal this is probably a bad thing. 

3) Sometimes it is not great to pick fights with your PM in terms of the lease/rent.

To me, the work is done badly but maybe I'm overreacting.

In real estate investing, there’s always demand for apartments in good and bad economies, so multi-family real estate is considered low-risk and therefore often yields lower returns.