I was looking to buy a home from him last year but he blasted me in an email for looking him up on @biggerpockets  in this post, so I stopped communication. 

It's good to put together a long-term plan, but I have never understood how someone with 0 properties is more worried about how to scale then how to build the foundation correctly.You are putting the cart before the horse.

I came close to purchasing a few myself but decided to walk away last minute to focus on other projects.

Last, urban blight all-too-frequently accompanies many of these policies.But, on the whole, the coordinated set of policies implemented in places like San Francisco and Oakland, CA seem to just be incredible tailwinds to investor returns over long periods of time.

Can they prove how long it takes to rent a vacant property?

Ideally short or long term rentals.

So a CRE crash will indirectly hit the economy hard, I still believe SFR is a quality, long-term scarcity hard asset worth investing in.

The only reason to buy a home while still in flux is if the long-term plan is for investment only.

Good contractors are tough to find, so this is the perfect platform to establish credibility among the investor community. 

I’m about 4 years from retirement and regretting not venturing into this world sooner.I’m currently going back and forth on whether to focus on short term rentals in Florida (Destin, PCB) or long-term single family homes in the Birmingham, Al area.