
19 October 2022 | 248 replies
No state income tax, grass to tend, no ice/snow, humidity/excessive rain, storms with names, floods, earthquakes but with reasonable to great property tax rates and less LL-tenant regulation.

22 August 2022 | 135 replies
After many years and many properties, we've been through a series of adventures (and misadventures) worthy of a Hollywood script--including flooded rentals, earthquake-caused property condemnation, unexpectedly canceled contracts, and even having to navigate a felony-level crime committed at a property we had under contract...but those are stories for another day...Now, to answer your question: I spent about 1 hour with my agent on a Monday going over my goals and learning about his process...that Thursday, we spent about 8 hours looking at properties and making our offer, and we were under contract that night...so, it was a fast-paced process, and much quicker than I had expected (but that had more to do with the breakneck pace of my local market than anything).

26 December 2016 | 151 replies
For instance, you or your love ones get diagnosed with cancer or serious illness, become disabled and need 24hr care, get in a car wreck and get sued, the bank closes your lines of credit (yeah I already said this but this really made me mad with a 780 credit score), the market crashes, you get divorced, a riot or hurricane or earth quake or flood wipes out or damages most your properties, and the list goes on and on.

28 February 2024 | 130 replies
CA went through a deep dive after the loma Preita earthquake and the first War in the mid east and things got really bad.. they had 250 different properties student housing senior MHP ( land development that I ran) and of course apartments galore and they could not sustain and it all got liquidated and I found myself out of a job..

25 June 2022 | 10 replies
This question is literally asked weekly.Start with no state income tax, cheap insurance, low property taxes, tile roofs, stucco siding, and low maintenance yards, landlord friendly and no snow/hurricanes/hail/major earthquakes, that should narrow it down for you.

10 November 2021 | 686 replies
I would have guessed it was a massive earthquake that might make that stuff useful living here, but if it's a virus, so be it.

12 November 2023 | 14 replies
That big earthquake in San Francisco didn't help either.

27 October 2023 | 56 replies
As a young man trying to survive in America, the Army took me all across America, Haiti, Egypt, Kuwait, etc... these days I travel for leisure in and out of country.

20 September 2022 | 13 replies
Are they retro fitted for earth quakes?

26 July 2021 | 71 replies
In case of real estate, you are one big earthquake (I'm from California :-D ), or hurricane, or flooding away from being wiped out.