But both owners are from California and I would feel bad leaving them stranded without a local property manager.

I had the good fortune to buy several homes in texas and california between 2010-2013 .I financed the deals with private money and figured I would hold for 5-7 years.I have changed course and want to hold these properties for the long term.  

We all know areas like Rockville, Silver Springs, Bethesda, etc.... wont be an issue but going further out towards Baltimore there must be a line in which the fundamentals of some areas will cause them to be affected more in a down cycle.I was in CA in the last down cycle so I don't know how this area was truly affected. 

Hi,My name is Shubair and I am 27 years old. I was born and raised in the greater Los Angeles area and graduated from university in 2012. I run a retail cigar shop in near by Calabasas and have been able to purchase 2...

This criteria varies greatly city to city and block to block even,  but you need to know beforehand or you are already done before the day you start. 

Although my company is located in CA and IL, we are both buyers and private lenders on lower $ ARV SFR properties throughout the U.S.Best of luck and continued success.

A large law firm and their community owner client just paid a huge fine in California over the law firm's bad advice over SCRA.Now, Ronald is correct that Frank and Dave are your competitors to some extent.

For us, we want to live in Chicago for the next few years and for us financially it makes more sense to invest in multi-family homes where we live in one unit and rent out the others and try to repeat as many times as we can before we maybe eventually move out of the city.  

Are you local or working from California?

Talk about drinking from a fire hose!  I bought The Book on Investing In Real Estate with No (and Low) Money Down and am working my way through it.  My first step, as I see it is to evaluate my resources, and see wher...