I live in California so this housing market is not very beginner friendly.

I'm looking for people who have actually done it or are brokers that specialize in self-storage and are familiar with the markets who could give me some tips on what to look out for and how to work towards buying them.

I'm interested to know how much other house flippers are paying their GC and what type of structure plan they have in place. 

After closing, we discovered that for about 5-6 of the properties, tenants had been granted "sweetheart leases", well below market rates, extending through 2027 and beyond.

I'm a rookie trying to break into the market.

I'm not making excuses for propstream or pin... but just my personal experience is that I wouldn't expect skip tracing to really be THAT effective.What bothers me the most is all the companies that market it as "we do skip tracing, you just click here and get the number" without making it clear that it's some computer's best guess at a number based on a million social media sites combined with county records..etc.. 

Is counting on appreciation the only strategy in a market like this, or are there points of view?

My husband does small handyman work when we are not flipping houses.

I would like to explore and expand my portfolio through house hacking and possibly a fix-and-flip.Thank you for taking the time to visit.If you're in the Central Florida area, I would love to connect with more like-minded individuals.

We've come to realize that the Boston market is too tough and the numbers don't make sense (to even house hack), so just recently, we decided to hone in on Plymouth, MA... with the idea that it could be a good tertiary market to do furnished rentals (thinking short-term/AirBnB in the summer, and mid-term in the offseasons).