I think the main flow in your argument is that you belive that when you drop in money to RE, these money will stay there.

I invest mainly in SFH and the rental market is still very strong when targeting people who want to rent their residence, but don't want to be packed into apartments.  

I have four 6 plexes in Louisville on the same street and they all do not have locks on the main doors, just a handle to open them.I need to add locks so the tenants have some added security.

Hello everyone, I have a couple properties that I am looking at and my main set back is that they’re old builds, around early 1900’s.

Over the long run you may find that your side hustle becomes your "main hustle".

The main problem is that its not only me the one who is going to pay the monthly mortgage but also my brother.

CA benefits from a glorious past with tech industry and entertainment industry to name a few, that were built before CA became effectively a one party system; and this "People's Republic" unfortunately also "occupies" more than half of our beautiful West Coast with prime real estate.

If you have specific questions, you can post them here to benefit the forum.

Also, the association controls finances, insurance and many other things, a friend of mine has a condo in a unit mainly controlled by Canadians that are seasonal, in their infinite wisdom they decided to not maintain flood insurance for the development (they are in a flood zone)  now the units are unfinanceable , so the values are lower because only cash buyers can buy in the building.

main thing to remember, UK and los angeles have very different economics.... local economies in each specific area in los angeles even vary quite a bitthe income or industry in south la vs west la vs north la are all very different.pick an area and dissect it make the best decision"ghettos" in Los Angeles have a lot of life long renters that are very much govt subsidized  so you are not investing with a tenant but more so with the government and managing a tenant as a way to get a premium