There is a good history-in-review here: http://newburghrestoration.com/blog/2018/01/17/los...A huge community lost its housing, economic base, and sense of place, and desperation, crime, corruption, and insular thinking certainly filled in the gaps that were opened wide. 

Some would call the wealth disparity unfair.

You can imagine the bugs.The tenants were a wide and varied assortment. 

If they do not immediately re-assess, then it may happen at the next scheduled county-wide reassessment.

With regard to liquidating the 401 to start your REI business, I have no experience with that but looks like there is a wide range of opinions on the pros and cons.

You have to have those wide beams on the big openings, otherwise you can make the opening smaller and place a smaller beam.

However this has a wide range of home sales ranging from $320/SqFt to $1,020.80/SqFt. 

And don't forget the state wide rent control.

What skills a mentor is looking for is widely varied.

Investor friendly agents generally share some of these traits: Great analysis skills, software, and tools with a wide understanding of the market (others too, to add context), investment strategies (able to elaborate and quantify them), well connected and credibility.