General Recommendations: Any general recommendations or best practices for someone new to the fixing and flipping scene in Oakland?

And what are some best tips and practices to look out for? 

Networking is always a great practice and you never know who you might meet there and what good information they have to share.

He's a stock market guy but the practice works just as ell for RE. 

How does anyone find a way out of the scourge of renting with these kinds of business practices by landlords? 

The intention of the REC was to stop the practice of wholesaling as we know it.

Find Brandon's videos on YouTube for the "four square" method of analyzing homes and practice.

I have experience as an SFR investor (rentals), as a realtor as well as corporate experience in mortgage lending and servicing practices from a large bank - all of which I will leverage to grow my MLO career.

Most of them think practically because the law is the law.

I am giving rock solid advice based on 30 years of practice, owning 100s of homes and properties, and watching people like you screw up and open yourself up to the worst parts of the business over and over by not accepting anything but a warm pat on the back.