This area where your home is has been vacant fields forever.

I get more cash upfront, cashflow after my cash-out refi, and I net more on the sale because no realtors involved.Young family that the husband started a business 1yr ago so couldn't qualify for a mortgage, but they wanted to buy a home. 

In the same boat here as I’m about to close on a home on Friday and would love some recommendations for someone to help me with this as well!

I can payback the loan in 24 months and have been approved for the loan.

Your one-bedroom condo may not be a great fit for insurance company relocations (for families displaced by fires), but if your other rentals have two-three bedrooms this may be another way to fill your rentals.I haven't done this, but follow a MTM guy on YouTube that suggests driving by the local "Extended Stay" hotel and looking for company vans in the parking lot.

If the account executive or loan officer is constantly saying, "Let me circle back with you" or can't answer underwriting questions, then that is a problem.

The rental market is very stable and there are options for renting your place to other Americans if you purchase a home and live their during your tour and rent it out after you leave.

For flipping homes, you can do that in SoCal - IF you can find a deal which is very hard these days.

As the home sits right now it will cash flow about $100.00 to $150.00 a month if I self manage it due to tax hikes and the homestead tax credit not applying after it becomes a rental.

Purchase price: $900,000 Cash invested: $600,000 Purchased an existing short term rental fully furnished using equity from existing home here in Los Angeles.