It is a numbers game.

As I've said, I'm just getting into the real estate investment game and would love to connect to others in the area.Dave

However, I will take your suggesting and I will be then subcontract others and get the permits myself to avoid all this waiting game.

Someone with a high risk tolerance is playing a different game than someone with a low risk tolerance.

They allow you to provide them with custom field criteria (i.e absentee owners, 50%+ equity, owned for 5 years +, 2-4 units) then charge you a small price per contact.

I'm very young to the game of renting and life itself really, I know that the grass is grown up a lot and I'm unsure if that will cut down on the true cost of it, but I assume roughly $3000-4500 for the 1.25.

I have been seeing a lot of deals going down in the game.  

Right now I'm just getting the fundamentals down and working on my mindset (The Miracle Morning is a game changer).

I'm glad that you folks are into the rental game there in the East Bay, but it's not for me.

Similarly, I suspect Amazon wanting to enter the mortgage business isn't about the potential profits, rather they want to capture the vast amounts of data that a loan application produces, which will ultimately strengthen their understanding of their customers and lead to an increase in overall profitability.