In Cedar Rapids you can't have more than 5 unrelated individuals in a house no matter how many bedrooms it has. 

Thanks for all the rapid and helpful replies. 

Create systems and you will grow at a rapid rate.

Back then I was looking at new high rise structures going up all over North Fresno and thought to myself - " now here is something going on" Even now, growth is still happening at a pace so rapid, my GPS can barely keep up with it - and of course they chose to put high speed rail here in Fresno because it is a hub of activity and has access to the bay area.

the university down the street from me paid out 40K on an emotional support guinea pig case. http://www.mlive.com/news/grand-rapids/index.ssf/2...my goal is to have a system that says :we allow emotion support animals under the following  circumstances 1. we can decline them based on 1.2. 3.i certainly understand finding a better / more qualified applicant or denying them for other reasons however it would be nice to know what the rules are and run my business accordingly. 

Your evolution as an investor should look like this: Bird-dog, wholesaler, flipper, landlord, transaction architect.

Keep in mind the rapid increase in rents is starting to slow.

Luckily being in Southern California my property is increasing in value at a pretty rapid rate so Im assuming a HELOC in 6-9 months from now might be a good strategy.

I've been leaning more towards buying a multi-unit in a rapidly appreciating area vs. a single family home in the area that we currently live in (a suburb with a great school district and is appreciating, but taxes are high), with the idea that the rents on the property we buy (say $5k total in rents) would exceed the rent that we are paying (say $2500 rent).I'm totally excluding any tax benefits/liabilities for this scenario and am purely looking at it from a monthly payment perspective.

For example, you can search all the Grand Rapid district court records online by name and it will show all civil cases.