D neighborhoods are not automatically a no, but tenant quality and turnover can crush you fast if you buy the wrong street, so I would rather see a smaller deal in a better pocket than a nice rehab on a rough block.

One thing QuickBooks did well was to snap a picture of a receipt, scan it with OCR, and then allow me to book the transaction later with most of the info automatically pulled out from the receipt.

-Drew If you're just starting out and have no network of investors, then your best bet is to find an agent that can set you up in their MLS system to automatically email you new opportunities daily or weekly. - NOTE: the initial email will contain everything on the market that meets your search criteria.

The automatic payment and reminders is the best feature.

If you want to think I am right, small MF will automatically have large value increase.https://enewspaper.sandiegouniontribune.com/html5/reader/pro...good luck 

You get owner-occupied financing, learn property operations firsthand, and reduce your downside while you build experience.California isn’t “uninvestable,” but it is unforgiving for beginners.Tenant protections don’t automatically make a deal bad, but they do magnify mistakes.

House hacking works best when the deal reduces your monthly risk, not increases it.Buying 30 minutes away isn’t automatically bad.

For a first rental, simplicity often winsMany newer investors skip an LLC initially and focus on:Proper insurance (good landlord + umbrella policy)Clean operations and bookkeepingAn LLC doesn’t replace insurance, and for a single property, it doesn’t automatically create bulletproof protection.3.

Separate the loan from the property.The 3% debt is excellent, but cheap financing doesn’t automatically make an asset a strong long-term hold.

It would be nice to set up a cron job to make them automatically run the scripts, but I've found that creating a simple claude command has done just fine.