I did it knowing it was my way to break into the commercial market.

As acquisitions have slowed, there is much more focus on the day-to-day, including a lot of chatter about OpEx and the biggest issue for most fans of the Southeast: insurance.

You may break even or may be lose a few hundred each month on 20-25% down on purchase in CA. 

I'm a new Buildium, but I chose it because a mentor of mine who is an excellent property manager runs her 60+ single-family rentals on the platform and uses it to handle all of her business accounting (including flips and investor disbursements). 

There is always something that breaks, a remote that goes missing, something breaks or stops working during their stay.  

This includes the unintended consequences of chance occurrences.  

Would be great if you could share an update with the community :-) Hopefully none that included an expensive training on how to buy a piece of land and then resell it. 

I will bet I can send you some great deal, but you won't have the ability to know they are deals because you don't have the experience to do the math.The biggest problem both new and experienced investors have is nobody watches our backs because everyone has their own agenda and the greed more money.What you need is to do is; rather than banging your head against a concrete wall, post the properties you are looking at, write as much detail about each property as you can including rehab costs, rental income, how much you can increase rents and then let people give you their opinions and advice.Here is a serious problem with people who own their own business and then we wonder why some people are successful and why some are not. 

Instead of including the utility in the rent, give them a copy of the bill and make them pay half.

I have a friend who lives in California but is licensed in many states including Puerto Rico to do mortgages with Sunwest.