That tiny 3 bedroom house in Palo Alto isn't worth $1.5M, the land underneath is worth $1.3M and the house is worth $200,000 (giver or take).

Yes there are people who have scaled up very quickly but ask I will venture to say that none of them said that it was easy work to scale that quickly.My lesson is that quality does beat quantity over time. 

It’s not that I want to invest elsewhere to make $, I want to explore ways to create affordable housing here by getting creative; ADU condoization, tiny homes, cottage clusters, STR partnerships etc.