The main reason I chose Sacramento is because I could find a nice duplex/triplex for a portion of the price of a SFH over in San Jose.

My debate is this.As a general statement the rental property cash flow here in Los Angeles is VERY challenging to find.I am looking to buy a property with a detached garage and convert into and ADU for helping to offset to mortgage.Crunching some numbers up on $1M property with and ADU assuming (rough numbers) main house brings $5,000 and the ADU $2,000 I’ll still be negative in the deal after all expenses (vacancy, capex, repairs etc…)However if I will use it as a Sort Term Rental it will be cash flowing beautifully.What’s your take about buying negative cash flow long term but counting on AirBNB to bring in the positive cash flow?

I also didn't realize how many different skills were required, from financing to managing contractors to permits to city inspections to managing tenants or property managers.

I converted my garage to an ADU and now my main house is considered RSO unit since it was built before 1978.

Understand that different cities and counties are different.

I'm curious on where I should go to join a REI team that focuses mainly on creative finance?

You will meet people from different walks of life that will give you different perspectives on real estate investing.

Under 469, if an activity is passive, we generally have two different buckets. 

@Jason Taken I was looking at different refinance calculators on my mortgage company website.

I don't know what kind of experience you are talking about, but I own a Great Clips that operates on Main St in downtown Suffolk.