My Uncle Jim moved out to California in the 1960s, he was an aspiring hippie, who wanted to get in on the dying days of the Free Love movement.
He was also an enterprising pot dealer, who wound up doing certainly well for himself out here, then after moving to Canada briefly to dodge the draft, he moved back plus settled down in San Francisco, then even back then it was a trendy, upscale locale to live, although the apartment values have skyrocketed in the years since, however it’s because of Uncle Jim that I was able to get my foot in the door of the San Francisco real estate market, but back in the 60s apartment values in the Bay Area were a fraction of what they are this week, so he purchased multiple properties to use as rentals! Over the years he would spend my savings money for houses plus apartment buildings, however when he was ready to retire he started to sell off his San Francisco real estate holdings, plus allowed me to serve as the agent, however this gave me with a great deal of hands-on experience with San Francisco real estate, first with customers, plus later with other sellers besides Uncle Jim… Currently I would say that the San Francisco real estate market is as lucrative as it has ever been.
Without the inside help of my Uncle, I never would have been able to get an experience with money home customers for apartment in San Francisco… Uncle Jim took all the money for houses he had made plus moved out to a tropical island to retire.