I'm over mindset books and find myself needing nuts and bolts tips on accounting, hiring, taxes, etc.Any recommendations???

@Bobby NilsenThat is nuts about Mountain View making rent control retroactive , seems like a very unfair thing to do.

Im checking a list in a county where I live and im already up to 3k how good are these lists, do the trees bear fruit or am a wasting Fiji water to see them grow?

Maybe take someone more familiar with the nuts and bolts of houses with you when you are walking through potential properties.

I also like personal development books as I believe personal development is just as important as learning the nuts and bolts of investing.

I love my job and get paid handsomely for it but I'd like to be independent in the next 10 years so I gotta get cracking.Am I nuts to be thinking this?

Moreover, California is such a basket-case politically, we should enjoy the fruits of California's idiocracy for years to come. 

The condo route sounds very fruitful .

Despite the fear mongering, average evictions in LA county are 3 to 6 weeks but part of the idea with LA is you might have less evictions to begin with...jobs, growing economy, tight inventories, competitive tenants, low vacancies etc...In a nut shell, the appeal could be substantially more profits with less hassle if compared to other locations on a longer term hold.

Started buying houses after the market crashed for 10K in a particular neighborhood and everyone told me that I was nuts.