It's cool to see other fellow athletes doing RE.Yes, I would love to meet up and discuss RE sometime!

Is SF going to recover or can it recover?

I can tell you from working with my clients selling multifamily that if an area is all utilities included then you are wasting money trying to stick it to the tenants.They will simply move down the street and I have seen it happen.Metering water is not as expensive as electric in my area.So if an area say has 80 percent of buildings individually metered than the tenants for the area are conditioned to it for the most part.You just might have a building that was never converted.You have to analyze your hold period and recovery costs over time.Sometimes it might make sense after doing the cost analysis to submeter water but leave the electric alone.So first see if sub-metering is common in your immediate area.If it isn't the tenants will most likely move.If it is common then step two is determining if it's practical to sub-meter most utilities or just one.I can tell you with older buildings this is the number one concern of my investor buyers.That owner paid utilities included in rent will outpace rent increases and eat into future returns and projections.Utilities keep going up more and more at an alarming rate and investors want to offload these cost onto the tenants.

I am a current student athlete in college in West Palm, and my background and nature makes me very interested in investing and even potentially being an Agent.

Ed Rodgers (Aaron's dad) for a day, great family and quite the athletes!

I have no history with Airbnb, and my credit is still in recovery (I have fixed all former debts, but my credit score has yet to catch up).Does anyone have any advice?

It's a CRAZY sellers market due to low inventory.My personal opinion is that the source of the shortage is the general public's lack of faith in the supposed economic recovery.  

Everybody talks "V" shape recovery - but the yield on the U.S. 10 year note at .60bp tells the true picture...

Of course I feel they should short sale in order to address the problem and get on the road to recovery sooner but that's another topic.

You need to look at other things that are harder to calculate like, depreciation, cost recovery, taxes, principle pay-down, capital gains/losses, changes in basis...I made my own spreadsheets to look at all this.