@James Wise  Per your request.Coming out of the late 1800s most of the major west coast cities that we know and love like LA  SF  PDX SEATAC were all subdivided by the same engineering firms  at least SF and Portlandia were.. this led to land speculators in the day going out into the Western deserts and other remote areas.. buying what were large land holdings , Spanish land grants and other lands that were not govmit owned.. then in the day you could simply create massive subdivisions buy doing basic surveys off of the base and meridian lines.. which all of the west is surveyed off of... this is called section land.then create these massive tracks of lots.. some were like up in the apple valley, Lancaster,  Barstow type areas mainly 5 acre tracts.. and were done on a grid pattern.. streets in ( mapped but not built)  and of course spiraled out of a small little town off the railroad track or the few roads that existed in those days.. you took your map and recorded it at the county, county was happy they just got 5 thousand lots they could send out tax bills on..

Otherwise IMO West Coast LA, would be a good choice as it is where East meets West in the largest market  ( most future growth)  and the rest for talent attraction reasons maybe.

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It will be vacant for much of the winter months its only 4 years old I built it.Master on the main.. 5 bed 5 bath  fully furnished with nice stuff.. basement with full gym etc.. 

I've setup a couple basic alerts, mainly Sacramento.

First choice would be somewhere in between. 1BR, over 800 sq ft if possible, under $1000 if possible.Right now they're renting from us, 2BR $900, 1000 sq ft.

The main thing is not to use the HELOC for long term funds because you don't want to continue paying the interest on it if you can prevent it.

Main goal to create some passive income and see just how far I can go with it.

Mainly I mean that he was terrible to deal with through his tenancy, and gave me grief every chance he got.  

This is a tricky question, mainly because it depends on what you are looking for in a property.