Also drive around your city and look for new builds, talk to the crews and contractors there ask them if they know anyone.. if you have a couple extra coffee's in the truck I'm sure they will take 5 minutes to have a cup and answer a couple questions.

Not a lawyer, done about a dozen evictions in past couple of years. 

I've worked with a couple financial planners in the past and neither seemed to be capable of doing more thorough analysis than I was given ~20 hours of work in Excel, so I'm looking for someone who can demonstrate to me quantitatively that their analysis is correct given whatever assumptions their modeling takes into account.Background:I currently own 5 properties, 14 units in Minneapolis/St.

@Kyle Mitchell I know of a couple meetups closer to West LA that have multifamily investors.

Another assumption would be that I already have a couple investment properties that are cash flowing well to give me some extra income for future purchases and that I am 24 years old with my whole life ahead of me.

Unfortunately I don't have any contacts in that area but if you drop a couple city names in a forum post you might set off someone's key word alert. 

Steve is right about us not having a meeting in December since it is just a couple of days before Christmas. 

You're more likely though to benefit from the new appraised value though once done (even more so since you did the work).Also, it's often overlooked but you're going to have new closing costs for the loan.... which probably are going to be a couple grand.

Our goal is to rent the back unit out for a couple years cutting our mortgage payment in half or so while we stockpile cash for our next deal. 

I am wondering if I could move to a different home in the same area and acquire a “normal” mortgage for 5% down or so, live in it for a couple of years then do the same thing one more time.... ending with 2 rental properties and a home for myself.