Both bought in 2011 both cash flow over 700+ a month and have doubled in equity.

I recently bought a property to live in and went through negotiations, escrow, and closing for the first time, I learned a lot from the process.

Bought a lot of homes but never a piece of vacant land without an address.

Homes bought as primaries and then turned into rentals (without considering them as a future rental at time of purchase) rarely work out well.

I bought when the numbers worked and I rented when they didn't, like in SoCal and NOVA.

I bought the house for $119,000 appraised value and have only been making the minimum payments since I purchased it and it is paid down to about $101,000. 

Unless you bought at a low cap rate and it won’t pay off for too long to wait.

I'm also in California and I've always bought out-of-state. 

Also you can b, c and d within a 1 mike radius and all can do well, especially if the c and d are getting bought up for flips like in Westend, East Atlant, East Lake Andy parts of Decatur

I told her I needed to run some numbers and would get back to her.After walking the property, my wife and I agreed if the property were to be bought/sold, everything on it would have to be demo'd.