Thus, keeping transaction volumes at an even pace, but putting pressure on prices and rents.Unless there is an expectation in the direction of the economy, the real estate market will continue in its current direction until construction can catch up or local economy jobs move and shift demand for housing elsewhere.

Hi @Chloe Landon, well ill share my story, I went to school UCSD International Business and I got a master in real estate from Wharton and I work few  years in private equity as a investment analyst and did well and open a consulting firm for  medium and small private equity and joint venture investors in southern California, I have all this fancy college and had a great background and I done it all I was realtor in college, as well as property manager and analyst and now I flip and build projects you name it, so that's me then I have a very smart partner who came to America from Israel with about $2000 bucks and didn't know English he was 20 years old working double shifts and over night he saved and got his citizenship got loan and flip his first house and his business grew wholesaling multifamily complexes in east coast and now we are both in our very late 20s year shy of 30 birthday and thankfully we have company with about 190 units multifamily and we individually own a lot of property and try to flip 15-20 homes per year, so no matter what route you take belive in it hard work and when you think you are tried and cant take it anymore do it for another 5 hours if you really want to be successful you cant quite and you can think this is so hard just do it till you see results and everything in between forget it don't program your mind into thinking its hard or what is best just do something, please PM I love to help a  young mother with any info I can.

Regarding what I'm looking for, is anything you can think of to have that will make my shift into property manager/landlord easier.

If you are in the business everyday you see the minor shifts way in advance of others.

Yiu could shift things together, or you could overlap things, but if I were the PM or GC doing schedules, I make sure this gets done before that.

Double shift if needed, give one "contingency day" a week.

If you do that and have considerable equity built up and the market shifts you have room to make adjustments.

I am interested in the standard progression of real estate investing; however, my job on 2nd shift as a machine operator working 6 days a week, 10 hours per day severely limits my free time.

The unit is only 10 years old and is in a clean, family friendly planned community with a pool and about 10 minutes from the beach.I am interested to hear from other BP members about their experience shifting from long term renters to shorter / vacation renters, hopefully those in San Diego and/or coastal California.  

Originally posted by @Allan Snow:@Chelsea SmithFrom talking with people and my own experience, i found RBC was the easiest to get a mortgage.CIBC and BMO were the toughest.Hope this helpsAllan:The Schedule 1 lenders are routinely shifting the relative ease of approach depending on where you are in your investment business and where they are in the balance and weight of their portfolio.While you found RBC to be the easiest with whom to deal, they will only lend to you (residential side) until you have five mortgages (including your primary residence).