Assuming they could finagle a 10% down payment loan and put up 95k, they'd owe 855k and have close to 200k in equity. 

Hello,  I would like to know how I can connect with a financial investor to partner up on a project.  

Hi Danielle,I live in Indianapolis and grew up near Ft Wayne. 

But between you paying down your mortgage, plus the tax write offs, plus market appreciation it sets you up for having tens of thousands of dollars in tax free gains when you eventually sell it.  

We have had so much appreciation in the last 2 years and rents haven't quite kept up.

One of the biggest things I regret looking back on my career is not getting into multifamily sooner and thinking that I had to start in residential and then to slowly work up my unit count.

Also start looking for deals to see if selling would beat what you are earning now, if it does not then hold till something good pops up. 

If I wind up in a pinch then I’ll dip into my personal cash reserves.  

Regardless, CA needs to clean up its act or else tech (and film) will eventually get fed up.

Some of the cons of our location is that it is attached/sharing 1 wall to the front house, the patio is 30 ft up an alley where they walk past our front yard to get to their patio, it is lit and our neighbors have their front door on the same access alley so not a threatening looking alley by any means.