Having a construction background is a huge leg up.

A lot of tenants come from LA and Orange County after being priced out, which keeps demand steady.

Ideally, we’d like to make it our primary residence for at least a year before potentially moving on to the next one.I’m focusing on the Los Angeles, Orange County, or Long Beach areas.

The entire 15 minute video is worth watching, but here is the bottom line, in 2 graphs.STORY OF RENTAL INCOME – The orange line shows budget.

The first drop of something heavy and the tub with spider and orange rust. 

They’ll tell you what hoops to expect, which can save you months of surprises.If you can build the crawl space/foundation work yourself and you’ve got good subs, you’ve got a leg up — labor costs are what’s killing most builds out here right now; Kobe I hope this helps you a bit, I sent you DM on BP... it's one of the reason why I do this, I hope you can assist, thank you. 

But it takes also time to build and grow, as they say: simple, but not easy comparing development from farm to table to buying a rental is totally apples to oranges .. very different skill sets and risk profiles..

Hey Kishan,I’m based in the Orange County area, but I don’t mind making the drive down to SD if you ever want to meet up.

Broken leg $50. 

@Kathryn Lewis Comparing a short-term rental to a 401(k) investment is really apples and oranges.