I apologize if I violated any rules posting the video but I love that movie and thought it was appropriate on some level for my situation

You could give annual award for categories like: Most posts, Most voted up post, most blog posts, most blog comments, etc.I know it involves more work and I wouldn't want to make a suggestion that cut into your super fun video chatting time @Joshua Dorkin and @Brandon Turner.

I know this won't be a popular idea for those who believe in buying American made, but China has some awesome products for rehabbers that could be obtained at a fraction of the costs that we pay here in the US (especially helpful with higher end products, slab granite, ect....) but they require volume purchases and logistics might be a nightmare.

I watched a couple of your videos and I think the camera loves you :)

Do a quick search on youtube for "foundation repair" and you will find plenty of videos that explain how they do it.Basically they measure how far down certain parts of the house have sunk and determine where piers need to be placed.

They cover all sorts of topics not specifically multi-family.As Tim mentioned FIBI is also popular. http://www.meetup.com/Orange-County-FIBI/This is multi-family but in Torrance http://www.meetup.com/REAL-ESTATE-INVESTING-WORKSHOP/I think starting a OC-Based multi-family investors Meetup is a great idea.

I didn't want to get into too much detail on the first post as it would have been too long but it's hard to address the question without more details, pictures or video.

To deal with this crazy Bay Area market right now, I'm trying to cut my teeth on something new and less popular like adding on.

And contrary to popular belief that 100% is always the goal, this is not true. 100% occupancy is actually a bad thing because it means that our rates are too low, our marketing budget is being wasted because we have to send any leads to our competitors and, most importantly, it is a trigger for other investors to move in to your market.

Infrastructure can help, like in this video I was referencing above: Description, video But its not essential.