I'm in a career where I constantly meet all kinds of people and the encounters I have with people involved with real estate are always the most inspiring.

Make an account, 'create your own' list, under the 'property' tab scroll down to 'last market sale date' and click on 'last 3 months'.  

His SD will cover Oct rent (and damages) and partial coverage for Nov if I don't have a new renter.I have to do a SD accounting within 21 days. 

***Additionally, a mortgage broker that is able to take a tenant-buyer's option consideration that is paid to me (wholesale lease option deal), and either apply that consideration towards the TB's down payment when the exercise their right to purchase ORdiscount the price of the house.Typically the consideration goes through a third-party escrow account (my attorney's), and that helps with the above.Typically mortgage brokers who understand this type of situation will only submit financing applications to banks they have great relationships and won't have an issue with this type of thing.Thanks in advance!!

My concern would be the vacancies between school years (June through August) and having to account for loss of rent.

The series LLC avoids the issue of forming multiple LLCs and accounting for them at the end of the tax year.

My wife is an architect and we have private investment capital available, but we don't have that much experience in the CA market so we'd like to meet people involved in new construction (passive house), add value projects, as well as re-entitlement and fix and flips.  

This type of project I believe has tremendous merit and I would love to be more involved in pushing these initiatives forward.  

I've never worked directly for or with a contracting company, but have been involved in multiple reconstruction/rehab projects.

I would have happily looked into what happened and drilled everyone involved about it.