This house could be renovated into a gorgeous home.  

They had smoke stains on the walls, burned old blue carpets, pink bathtubs and garbage everywhere but they just trusted that I’d make the old units look like the one I had just finished.

Maybe it has a pink toilet and tub in the master bathroom ... maybe the work triangle in the kitchen is super long, find some flaw in the house that can be addressed slowly over time without spending a fortune (or a set of flaws, even better).  

Most agents are used to dealing with "people" not "numbers" and do not understand what motivates you the investor.They are used to people who don't like the pink tile or the color of the living room wall.  

This is gorgeous!

Other than selling Avon, baked goods, and making jewelry, we are both technichly retired [ will finally have closing on our business next week after months of title problems] and since other than some new appliances, bathroom sink, and gas furnace repair, everything else is totally simple cosmetic stuff we can do in our spare time.[ we need to live there for a year anyway, and might choose to stay after that] We won't get started working on it for a few weeks because we are getting our Bennett house ready to sell, but when we do, we only intend on making the kitchen serviceable, and the living room nice before moving in [ the bathroom works fine, but eventually we need to get rid of its' all pinkness other than a brown tub!

Gorgeous job.

Just gorgeous!

Oddly, that pink mailbox is my favorite thing!

California is a gorgeous place to live....people are willing to pay whatever price to own their piece of paradise.