As a sort of “follow up” I thought I could provide some infotainment to my fellow BPers by backing up my bold claims by analyzing a few specific Stockton Multifamily properties.

Are you setting up any sort of entity or are you putting your name on everything?

@Alexander Lang thanks for sharing your story, it truly helps to motivate those still on the fence scared to hop over to the other side.

The house sucks so most buyers can't finance it, the crappy house will fail any sort of inspection.

I'm trying to sort out the pros/cons behind charging pet rent ($15-25/month) vs. a one-time non-refundable pet deposit ($250).  

In my mind buying a rental with all your liquidity is not something you should do unless you have a concrete plan to scale. you would be better off in the long term buying some sort of business or finding someone to back that is into short term quick profit deals and keep building your nest egg

YOu will then find out how motivated they are.  

For a long time lurker and now starting to invest, this is very motivating.

It helps your house looking clean sort of lol.  

These people are not going to risk a move to work at a startup like these absent some sort of premium or major upside.