I'd prefer to invest closer to home, where I can drive and see the property before buying and make ongoing maintenance easier and all that.

I have provided 8 max allowed rent increase notifications (State rent controlled units) this year and 8 below max rent increases (for preferred tenants), but still substantial increases (also 1 not rent controlled increase). 

I missed that.I prefer MM leases after 1 year.   

My preference is for B/C class properties 

I am not afraid to put in the time and money to learn to be a good investor, but I would prefer to learn from someone who knows my area.Thanks everyone!

I'm also interested in discussions about the rent moratorium and how others have handled it.I've been in Lakeland about a year and a half and the pandemic thwarted any social networking for me.If anyone's interested in a meet-up for coffee, food, or beers let me know.

So within a couple years I went from say 50K in equity there to 200K equity after expenses, plus 15K in cashflow.That doesn't mean you shouldn't look out of State, but as someone who has done both (and actually would prefer out of State options), I've settled into keeping things in CA because working with the location you are in I believe for many people is much better. 

If the answer is no then I actually prefer that to someone who does have them.

However my preferred bank stopped accepting them so now it takes three transfers to get the money from my bank that does accept Venmo into the correct accounts.

So once we played it as “it’ll be a lot easier if we buy a house we can house hack, live there a year, simultaneously scope out other areas of town we would prefer to live, stack cash, then move into our long term house and keep the other as a rental and continue to subsidize our mortgage payment that way.”Was a no brainer once we looked at it from a logistical standpoint rather than wanting to be in the cute HGTV home right out of the gate.