@Adriana V Alvarado you'll learn more and have better control over a local house-hack versus an OOS rental.Just be careful of the tenant-friendly climate in California.

With being new your listing presentation/marketing plan is key.

Should they be using our name?

Theres many benefits being well capitalized. 

Not sure if you have a direct question, but reading the questions between the lines on when a property is actually considered to be in service.Facts and circumstances.Generally for a rental property it is "in service" when it is "ready and available for rent" - meaning you are marketing it for rent, and a tenant could utilize a property that day.

We know the area very well and only move a couple miles at the most, we actually just moved into a house in the same neighborhood as our first house.

Popular neighborhoods include Lakewood and Casa View, but larger multifamily properties can be expensive.

That's when an app like Hospitable can be worthwhile because long term management apps lke Buildium don't connect to these sites. 

How to get there would be a lot of hard work.

There used to be a classified section where people could list properties for sale.