It’s been an incredible journey of self-managing the property—living in one of the units for three years and gradually renovating three out of four as tenants turned over.

There is still money to be made and I think you have a good list of requirements, the pool of areas and properties is small in CA for a buy and hold appreciation. 

Although I've been investing in and improving multifamily properties since 2000, I decided to go back to school and get a Bachelor's Degree in Construction Management from BCIT (I already have my Red Seal in Carpentry).

Hey @Jamie Grossman - I'm a Realtor and Property Manager in Chicago and Northwest Indiana, new to the Bigger Pockets Community but not new to real estate. 

We are looking to rent our properties to visiting nurses and the like. 

In CA currently only MF properties are rent controlled.  

Was just sort of wondering if there’s any innovative ideas out there for getting properties online because of a good online presence? 

The cost to heat the property runs $1,200 a year.

Hire an experienced real estate broker to help you price and sell the property. 

We've been honing in on a pretty good development/investment formula that is working for us where we buy an existing single or multi-family house that can be improved or easily split into smaller units, and then we also add small new construction units to the property (townhomes or duplexes or cottages) and, generally, we rent them all out (though we have sold a couple of single family rehabs and we may sell the units in our next big project...