I learned patience in grad school by manually creating data sets for professors.

I am new to real estate investing and BP, and I am excited to learn more about this space!

In my experience (personal & w/clients) the wife usually doesn't want to pick up and move too often to stick with a strategy like yours.

My weekly podcasts will also help you get a better feel of our market and then might help you learn our market quicker and with more data. 

I’d appreciate any insights, lessons learned, or recommendations from those who have gone through this process.

but keep in mind CA has higher taxes and reg fees and I’m not doing more than 1-2 flips (short timeframe flips)  a year and many years do 0 flipsDo most flippers put flips into LLC Or in personal name (sole proprietor)  in CA (where you must pay $800 yearly plus accounting and other fees $300to $600+ yearly to maintain LLC) Pros for personal name-save on taxes accounting.

One middling program I got into, I later learned the founder was trying to get out of managing real estate because "it was hard" so he decided to teach real estate investing instead. 

In many places, daycare costs, commuting, office clothes, taxes, meal prep, all take up a working person's full income when you switch to going back to the office.

Can you send me a link and/explain from either personal experience or an example of when you seen that happen.  

I will make that proposal to the person I am talking and see where it goes.