All Forum Posts by: Carlos Ptriawan

For Northern California or wherever expensive, the focus by default shall be Appreciation. 

John Burns SFR research

The easiest solution is just to rent a house with many rooms and ask for the Landlord to allow you to sublet other rooms/units. If I have a property in your area I will allow you to do that.

I only need :
1. price
2. actual condition
3. current rent
4. tax
5. who's living there

other than that, it's just derivative of #1 or #3.

Also if you have a demanding good job and career, it's always wise to hire a PM. Those that said always DIY maybe doesn't have anything else to do :) 

1. Stay in California as the job, family, and home appreciation is here.
2. Don't listen to anyone that asks you to move out of CA :)
3. You still able to get good house with 500k down 

These kinds of questions attract these kinds of answers, I hope you don't get confused.

Definitely first house. Investment is hit and miss. First house is always good investment.

Tim how do you screen tenant if they don't have bank account at first place ?

You could actually make a lot more money if you buy house yourself in Irvine regardless it's MF or SFR because Irvine has massive appreciation. They're incomparable to the best OOS cash flow investment.

This is actually a pretty common strategy and used by the parent to reduce their tuition fee.