If it doesn't work out like I hope, it'll still be a great spot for my forever home.

You likely don't want to carry that kind of debt forever and you'll want paid back quickly.

This is a simple business that has been around forever.

I have a quote to fix the exterior of my house (siding, windows, concrete, garage break away walls), but I'm worried it's going to take forever to even get quotes from a GC to start working on the interior of my home. 

Not forever.

Roofs leak and heating systems need maintenance. water heaters don’t last that long but fridges usually last forever. 

I may be biased because the Bay Area has been home to me forever, so the Bay will always be near and dear to me. 

If you don't mind keeping the tenant forever in the house, tenants without a SS# may not be an issue. 

You are pretty well committed to it forever.

To me a Capitalization Rate is a rate that capitalizes something (yeah took me forever to come up with that one... lol) ... presumably into something else (kinda like a conversion rate).