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San Diego Apartment Investing Overview
Real Estate: Why We Invest in Income Property Investing in income property is one of the most reliable ways to build long-term wealth, offering a combination of cash flow, tax benefits, and appreciation that few other asset types can match. In San Diego, where a...
A Landlord’s Nightmare
I was searching Netflix for an old film. I wasn’t sure if I remembered how it ended or not when I came across a movie I had not thought about in a while from 1990: Pacific Heights. In 1990, I had been in the business of property management in California for three...
Property Owners Perspective: What I Learned Managing My Properties
I thought it would be easy. Invest in a property and improve my return by managing it myself. Simple, right? Well… not exactly. It didn’t take long to realize the breadth and depth of knowledge required to manage my own property well. Overnight, I became a compliance...
City of San Diego’s Residential Tenant Protection Ordinance and Guide
California’s Tenants Protection Act of 2019 (AB 1482), provides statewide protections for residential tenants. In June of 2023, the City of San Diego Residential Tenant Protections Ordinance (No. O-21647) went into effect, providing further local protections for San...
Short-Term or Long-Term Rentals: Which One is Better?
San Diego is a unique rental market. While long-term leases are almost always the best option for investors, this is a tourist-friendly area with a lot of vacationers coming and going for a period of days, weeks, or months. Plenty of property owners are finding that...
The Skyscraper Index
Are you familiar with the Skyscraper Index? There are some rather tall buildings in and around southern California, specifically San Diego, but we don’t have the skyscrapers that a lot of other cities have. We think there’s something interesting about what the...
How Property Management Pays for Itself
Hiring a professional property manager to lease, manage, and maintain your investment properties might seem like an extra expense that’s only going to cut into your rental income and your long-term ROI. While it’s true you will pay a property management fee every...
California Proposition 19 – What It Is and How It Works
California Proposition 19 was approved during the elections in November of 2020 by California voters, statewide. It does two important things that you may need to know about as a real estate investor: This proposition changes the provisions of the parent-child and...
GUIDE: Tenant Qualification
In House Maintenance is the Best!
Our in-house maintenance team offers a wide variety of advantages to owners of investment real estate. This is an alphabetical list of those benefits and an in-depth understanding of how and what we do for you: Approval Limit Each Owner designates an approval...