Also, from my experience, it gets thrown off on parent-child listings because if the child books, the parent gets blocked, so it double-counts that income for those listings. 

Note at end of life, prop 13 benefit continues if residence of deceased becomes residence of a child.   

Lots of boomers are sitting on big equity in the Bay Area, they will want to stay around their kids.

She wanted to have her child in the excellent school district and often paid late but always paid so I let it ride. 

More people are focused on celebrating the holidays(which costs money).People are less likely to want to move their child out of their school in the middle of the year.Can you sell a home at the end of the year - yes.

It’s a risk vs. admin trade-off.Early on, many investors use one LLC (strong insurance + umbrella) to keep costs simple.As equity grows, move to 1 LLC per property (or state-specific LLCs) for better liability separation.If buying multiple in one state, consider a holding-company + child LLCs (or series LLC where available) to isolate risks while centralizing management.

Vestin Mortgage was the poster child for this.

People like to call us boomers for not "understanding", but the truth is that this generation doesn't understand how short their rope is.

We looked into house-hacking, however there are not any multifamilies around that would be able to support us, our child, and two dogs.What would you do if you were in our shoes?

Then onto the mentioned city-owned grocery stores, "free" mass transit, "free" child care etc etc etc..