With growing Latino population that tends to have a lot bigger family, I am not worried about finding guests.

Quote from @Kody Smith: I am New-ish to Bigger Pockets, and would love to connect with the community here.The idea: move from single family homes into commercial real estate... specifically multi family.The Goal: generate $20k/mo in cash flowI'm currently in silicon valley (san jose)... would love to find something profitable here, but it looks like there are better opportunities elsewhere.I am open to investing in markets across the US.

Even if you rent at a break even or slight loss, if you could have 3 years of rental income offsetting your mortgage while realizing 3-6% appreciation, could be worth it, especially if you think appreciating for this area will exceed national averages.

A two bedroom or bigger will grow at a much higher rate over time.

they appreciate, they provide other benefits like passive losses for tax purposes, and in the short term, they don't throw off that elusive passive income.

My wife and I are hoping to buy another single family home that is bigger sometime in the next year for our new family and potentially rent out our current home to tenants.

Sometimes I wonder if people just feel better about themselves to spend all those nights and weekends on real estate when, realistically speaking, they would have earned just as good a return (or pretty close to it) by investing in a stock market index fund and had way more free time in life  I realize my premise here is antithetical to the whole notion of BiggerPockets so of course bigger pockets hates me writing this, as do all real estate agents and property managers, but it’s the truth and everyone needs to think about it

I look forward to being involved with bigger pockets and am excited to connect.

Quote from @Eric Huang: Hi BP Community,I’m excited to be back on Bigger Pockets!

@Joelle ChilaziWelcome to Bigger Pockets.