What opportunities do you all see with this to either put more money back into them or take money out and buy more properties?

Patch of Land does, however, originate every loan offered on the platform so good lending guidelines and careful underwriting are responsible for providing investors with good, high yield investment opportunities.

I did one here in California just to get going because it was the perfect opportunity.

I'm on the Tennessee side of the NC border and totally agree with you - still lots of opportunities in some of these southeast US markets. 

You typically don't have the opportunity to inspect them prior to purchase, the occupants may not leave, the occupants may trash the place and steal doors, appliances, and cabinets on their way out, or you may discover it's so damaged it needs to be torn down.

In the latest tax bill, there is a great opportunity in what is called Opportunity Zones.

You can 1031 into passive opportunities later in life where the deferred tax continues to make a return for you all your life.2.

Yes, although the prices has increased very steadily so I think there are better opportunities elsewhere.

I am a private lender financing business purpose loans for investment properties in california.I like to service my own loans as that gives me an opportunity to keep in touch with my borrowers and also turn them as my marketing agents too ( where ever i can)I am only doing about 5 loans at a time and use xls for that (interest only loans)I al looking for a recommendation for a cloud based software I could use for servicing a small pool of california loans.Please advise.

Everything in real estate is about opportunity cost.