One of the most overpriced apartment markets in the country is considering rent control, too?

Hello, I'm interested in owning rental property in certain areas of California where I see that there is rent control.

Affinity is a big player here in the north county area.

I believe my RE agent provides great value to my deals with market/area/comp insight, a read on other agents and sellers, updates on what's happening in the market & market players, connections to the "aggressive" bankers & appraisers and a second set of eyes on the deal.  

AKA control freak

Furthermore, I'm eager and motivated to ditch the 9-to-5 along with that rough commute to spend more time with family and to be in direct control of my income. 

I stick with gas for cooking, as the temperature is more easily controlled.

This also yields tenants more interested in eventually owning a home ("well, we will need to buy a fridge in 3 years anyways, once our down payment is saved... may as well get it out of the way"), meaning they have plans to move out in 2-3 years, thus auto-solving my problems with rent control.

I know there are a few big players out there like b2r and colony.

As for the convenience of paying investment related expenses, the Solo 401k could have checkbook control built in without the need for an additional LLC owned by the retirement account.