Again kev… I said it before I’ll say it again. If your heart isn’t in it other than for the money, in all likelihood, you aren’t going to be very successful in what you do.

Lastly, your best investment is to invest in yourself and your own home first. It makes no sense to be thinking about investing in rentals and at the same time bending over paying a landlord in rent, especially when rates are so ridiculously low and rent prices are ridiculously increasing. And when things really can’t cashflow that well in CA as a rental…and it would be even more absurd to try to juggle an out of state rental, especially if you are still tied to a 9-5 desk job, especially.if you have no prior experience even locally. Not saying you couldn’t do it, but your probability of success? Every year you wait and continue to wait taking care of yourself is one more year you aren’t moving ahead.