That means reading as many real estate books as you can, listen to an endless amount of podcasts, attend as many meetups you can, and try to find a mentor by finding someone doing what you want to do at a large scale and provide them value (expecting nothing in return).

Ive recently come into a large amount of $ due to an injury settlement and im looking to do all great things thru real estate with it.

Then the Disney area may be a good fit.But if you watched some youtube channel with someone, who seems to get a deceitfully large percentage of their info from selling courses, preaching the dream of massive upfront cashflow that you can then leverage into another down payment next year and so on while exponentially increasing your wealth so you can quit your job and live on the beach in Aruba, Disney is the wrong market for you unless you're willing to invest substantially into super tippy top end theming.The good news if you're in the former camp is that prices have come down quite a bit here compared to most of the country with all of the saturation/competion. 

Like Gino mentioned East side has been a lower median income area and is on the rise, but is still block by block in large sections.

I did basically push one incompetent appraiser out of the San Diego market because his appraisals were so bad he was getting the reputation he deserved (I won 2 large appeals and he left when I was appealing a third which sucked for me).  

The investments going into the community are strong and a large section of it is in an opportunity zone which has some added tax benefits.

Building your own excel model & just combing Zillow in whatever market you're looking to purchase/running the numbers and finding accurate comps is a great way to start.In this market, you're going to need to look at a lot of properties before you find one worth it (largely due to low inventory & high mortgage rates).

Is it conceivable that they could have generated interest from someone with a large amount of cash, but not in a position RIGHT NOW to obtain a mortgage loan?

@Shachar Naimyeah $800 vs $2,000 is a large range

The long term goal at the subject property would be to add an ADU to the large side lot and have 2 units OR sell and purchase duplex/ 4plex.