Thanks, @Judy P.!

It is a new build area that was built right across the street from a huge shopping center that is slotted to go in.

I’ll catch a school date some time after getting there and because of my new rank there will most likely be no slots for WO1’s there effectively making the army send me somewhere else.

We take videos of the units on our phone and with some quick editing on iMovie we put together a virtual tour video that we send everyone before we schedule them for one of our viewing time slots.

Hi Judy,I would use the eventual mortgage amount to calculate your future cash flow.The private money cost can be calculated into the 'holding cost' while you fix the place up.

No charge for a Bigger Pockets member in my area as long as I can slot it into any other site visits I'll be doing over the next few days.

on the West coast  Lawyers are not allowed in small claims court.. think Judge judy on TVits just you and the tenant mano o mano and if your well prepared and a tenant is well a tenant.you generally win hands down. 

Your equity and bnb potential can and will evaporate in a down economy.However Steve to be clear in this decade I personally think with the price of west coast assets.. that those starting out would be Very smart to house hack a 4 plex do that 4 times over say 6 years each time refinancing your FHA loan out .. using your FHA loan to get to the 4 mortgage slots and way la for less than about 25k at anyone time your stacking up 4 doors per loan.. 

Safe as long as the load (appliance/outlet/device) doesn’t have some special code requirement (like a bathroom outlet for example that must have its own breaker)2- some breakers (not many) allow two circuits to be directly connected in which case you wouldn’t have to change anything (but the inspector prob checked for that already)3- add a double Pole breaker (if panel is compatible) or another single pole breaker if there are empty slots available in the panel.4- if there are no slots available for additional breakers, and the double tapped circuits require them to have their own breaker then you will either have to replace the panel to one that has more spaces.

@Judy P., Yup cranking the heat is a classic, I tried that one as well as pumping they system's PSI up to 27 lbs.