As they say, your network is your net worth.Using the master mind group as a platform, I am hoping to share CRE investing strategies, learn about different CRE asset classes, use each other as a sounding board to bounce ideas around, potentially partner on larger deals if we have complementary skill sets, and most importantly share our passion for CRE.About myself - I was born and raised in the Bay Area and transplanted to OC. 

Think in terms of rehab and holding costs, vacancies, litigation, and the hair on your head.

I’m a military transplant up here in Orange County and have been turned off the rental market from the massive property/school taxes assessed.

We see it all the time in Oregon and Nevada with CA transplants .But if you want to go out of state I like one simple rule.. figure out the median house price of a given area and buy at that price point.Don't go into a market with a 150k median price and buy a 75k house thinking your going to get rich and retire :)  U want to buy in neighborhoods that are primarily owner occ ..

Hair dressers “rent their seat” in salons all the time.Now a residential property owner may not want their property used as a quasi hotel, but suggesting there is no reason that someone could do something absurd like leasing an asset to use in a buusiness is rude and demeaning.

You can read all you want, but you just don't know until you are in the middle of the process (wanting to cry, pull your hair out, sweating profusely because it is phoenix in the summertime and 116 degrees and what were you thinking flipping a house?!)

Had those sprinklers actually worked, she would have found herself having to fix her hair while they were still gushing water :) Right @Rob K.?

A lot are new transplants to the city, like yourself, and may be interested in the instant community a by the room rental provides. 

Wear your best clothes, (typically I prefer to wear a suit with no tie) do your hair, and show up looking like a professional.

Although it got me in the door, it is not a strategy that can scale for business or health reasons( I want to pull out my hair at times) However; I would not tell someone not to do it.