If the neighborhood is improving this puts time on your side and your yearly write-off for depreciation might make you feel better.    

However I want to practice real estate investing and make side income.

I do side jobs for gate build/ installs.

Little more breakdown. 250-300k to build a 500k duplex that could rent easily both sides for 3k togther a month.

Inglewood and Hawthorne were never great until relatively recently, and are now hot markets.

I’m sure that with some forced appreciation and a few updates we can rent each side for $650-$700.

Make friends with some real estate agents, agents that are familiar with the investing side and they hopefully will be glad to help you on comps.

A little about myself: I live in San Fernando Valley on the west side of LA and primarily interested in learning about investment/rentals. 

@Sean Monahan You can still inspect your properties as normal - you'll just give your standard notice and communicate that to Airbnb guests.Loftium requires long-term tenants to hold renters insurance, and Airbnb provides $1M of damage protection and a separate $1M primary liability insurance for every booking.Most repairs don't get in the way of Airbnb hosting - i.e. if the stove is out, that can be communicated to guests - and as long as repairs are made on a timely basis, there's no penalty.We sign a standard 1-year lease for the first year, and can sign a longer lease after that if both sides are happy with the process.Feel free to check out my profile and the Loftium company profile on BiggerPockets for our website with more info. 

With all that now I’m getting the ac don’t work again so I send out a ac tech I explain to them the the tenants are claiming that the ac isn’t cold enough that the Edison guy that took off the summer saver box off the ac fan told him the ac needs a Freon boost I’m really  now the  Edison guy is a ac tech the ac was running cold now it’s not working .well the ac tech did a leak test ,pressure test and said it was fine  but it looks like it was tampered with he also said if there was a leak there wouldn’t be Freon in the system still so I payed him to fill it up  since there was  few pounds of Freon still in the system he also asked me when was the last time i serviced the ac  I told him about a year ago .he said that long ago if there was a leak  there would be nothing in the system so after paying a few hundred dollars ,now I get another call saying the ac is blowing hot air .so I send the ac guy back  .the same ac guy said looks like it’s been tampered with.so now I decide to pay for home warranty insurance after the second repair and now  the tenants threatened to sue me.for my fist rental this is a bad experience of tenants trying to scam me and the plumber his freind doing fraud.i later called the water company again spoke to the manager this time explained what going on.he said just tell the tenants to call and give a one time to talk about the bill that I don’t have to be on the account so i did they refused again.