You should definitely be making at least a few hundred bucks a month.

In areas of say 100,000 to 200,000 median income 15 bucks an hour to flip a burger might be doable because the affluent can pay 15 to 20 for a burger.

I would pony up for  USED Tesla... you get free supercharging for life and they are simply the best car made today.Also you stick to your Bay Area real estate ... if everything is close to equal a prime Pennensula home is a trophy asset that is of the most stable in the world... its sounds like you already have some rentals.. next move would be different asset class's or development deals were you make as much in one deal as 10 years or more of your cash flow in all your rentals.. open your thought process to bigger bucks.. there is MUCH more to real estate life than the rental business.

Cancun for example has 20 million visitors per year, you can get alot for your buck and the airbnb/ rentals are booming, more demand than offer.... 

Many others start when they have matured and have known the grind and professionalism of a corporate environment but we don't have that.

Feeling like I could get more bang for my buck in Indy too.

@Jay Hinrichs we finally bucked up and subscribed to costar.

if you don't mind me adding my two cents, if you are thinking of central NJ, say Mercer or Middlesex counties, go a few miles more west into Bucks County, PA.  

Im From California but I when to college in Oklahoma, I know the area a bit and in fact I have a rental at the moment and is cash flowing 200 bucks a month. not much but the house only cost me when I purchased back in 07 67,500.  

I called a title company and they would not open an order from the public you had to be an attorney easy way for attorney to tack on 500 bucks.