I'm here in the East Bay and you will not get 2% rule in California. 1% rule you may get on a fourplex or triplex in a "working class, blue collar, up and coming neighborhood in East Oakland".

.” – Tim O’Reilly"Half the wrecks that strew life's ocean,if some star had been their guide,might in safety now be riding,but they drifted with the tide.

I like investment type properties or dealing with blue collar people since that is really what I am.

Why let someone occupy a $ 100k++ asset with a bare bones agreeement that covers none of the edge conditions that come up once in a blue moon that a good agreement anticipates and deals with. 

Purchase price: $90,000 Cash invested: $90,000 1 bed 1 bath Ocean front end unit condo.

I'm located in Ocean County as well!  

With the Blue Oval City coming in the Tennessee near the Hatchie Wildlife Reserve near Brownsville, you can expect to see property value increase in West Tennessee.

With no where to expand east or west (everglades and the ocean) and an increase of demand (people moving down from up north) we project home prices and rents to continue to increase. 

@Curt S.Having success in Ocean City NJ and it was really easy to register with the town.

SE has a better ocean breeze due to the direction it blows majority of the time.