Now if a certain area can weather the last GFC storm you can imagine how that does in more normal times.

Putting forth good fundamentals in your loans with ensuring borrowers can earn equity; proper allocation of needed advances are set aside and try remaining objective with your loan treatments as opposed to forcing a loan to bend to your will help weather the storm.

If the money's been weathered 60 days, most lenders can and will count it.  

A huge draw to this region is the mild weather.  

Here is the latest from Marcus and Millichap (multi family) for 2017.National Multifamily Index (NMI) Several markets with favorable supply-and-demand balances and momentum in hiring made large moves to ascend to the top spots in the 2017 National Multifamily Index (NMI).Los Angeles advanced 11 places in the Index from one year ago to take the highest position in 2017 behind a forecast for further tightening in vacancy and minimal supply growth.

News Feeds (Blogs, local news/weather)?

If I put out 900k on this deal I wouldn’t be capable to weather that storm.

It would be great to connect with you and I can give you some insights on the area and the current market situation, future forecast, etc. 

How much are they forecasting to contribute to reserves vs how much are they pulling from?  

Still, finding a deal that pencils takes a lot of networking for off-market deals, or a lot of speed with the offer, because competition for anything on the market is fierce and growing as the weather warms up.Brown's Addition is great, and I hope to own rentals there someday.