You would first have to distinguish between performing and non-performing notes.  

What is your availability (hours per day or hours per week) to put into your business (realistically and with consistency)?

Is it possible to buy a Bay Area house in this market and have it perform well as an investment?

If you don't bring money to a partnership then you need to bring the time.Time is putting it together, dealing with the problems, and performing all of the management tasks.

Just a plain old boring lease with a security deposit made, move-in date on the lease to be about 3-4 weeks after you intend to close on your new purchase.We can use rental income to offset PITI on your old house, fixing your DTI.After that lease is up, evaluate the performance of your old home as a rental property, and either keep or sell it at that point.

Yeah well the main difference is that our market has experienced stable consistent growth nation wide for the most part since the 80's.

If people didn't see the returns or weren't happy with the tenant performance they wouldn't keep investing in Cleveland, wouldn't keep investing with us and would look for other options.

I'm willing to take calculated risks, but don't feel that its a smart decision to take on a project without performing a thorough analysis on the utilities. 

We have mobile homes and parks in Charleston with good success and have been curious how containers will perform.  

Be consistent.