The previous owner in possession is another issue altogether, and just icing on the degree of difficulty cake.  

Well, that and the thought of being my own boss someday takes the cake.

The icing on the cake was also how it's appreciating, it's potential and flights aren't too expensive out there from where I am.

Just make sure the investment makes sense from the day you buy it and that improvements that are made are only icing on the cake. 

My understanding it isn't a peice of cake for agents to pull comps on an area, so I don't want to flood him with addresses for him to pull comps on.How do you go about picking home to view for a particular area?

I see you live in Anaheim.

I have another in Anaheim on Brookhurst and La Palma we are all in at $320,000 it will cash flow.

You eventually want to get to a point where you do not need to live off of transactions but they become icing on the cake to your investments and cash flow.Older brokers I know in their 60's,70's,80's simply coast and work on the deals and clients they want to.I would rather have a group of core clients I work with and do deals over and over again.

You'll hear from people that are sold on "cash flow" and basically consider appreciation as icing on the cake.

I deal with a lot of heavily distressed properties so something like a single condo unit would be a piece of cake for me.