- Los Angeles / Realtor/ Futures & Commodities trader.

And by the way this is 11 studios in a B- neighborhood, within 0.5 miles you have cafes, nice bars and restaurants; within 1.5 miles you have Starbucks, Trader Joe's, etc. so the location is great, hence why we might accept a lower return... or I'm just making excuses because I still like it and we're trying to figure out a way to make it work!

In theory all of those things work.. in reality they rarely do if your not in the business full time IE  an agent or broker.. on the street level .and its regional as hell .. in some markets you can trade real estate like a used car broker you can buy properties for 5 to 20k each and do something with them.in other markets that is not enough money for a earnest money deposit .. so market matters.. your goals matter of course and your ability to capture capital or financing.Keep in mind Brandon is and has invest at least in the beginning when he used to actually participate on the forums.. in a little town on in central coastal Wa. that was basically dead and dying timber AG fishing town.. and properties were not expensive and you had motivated sellers.. he was not in Seattle..

It's like you want to be shown how to be a good Horse Trader?

The truth is that buying from investors (call it turnkey or whatever) rather than from homeowners is almost always a losing proposition for the inexperienced out of area investor for the same reason that newbie commodity traders always get squished. 

For ex : the most common advice is to avoid a bigger rehab initially .

It's had a good 1.5 days but I'm not a day trader, so I don't care about a day or two here and there.

I think Lincoln Village in Stockton is a great area to invest in, I tried to purchase a property close to Trader Joe's but our numbers were too far apart.

If you work hard enough you could probably find a way to trade rent for work.  

The bad news is part of investing, be it the stock market, Forex, Real estate etc.