I am a beginner at purchasing distressed properties.

My POS Eclipse probably have people pity me and give me the deals for a great price ^_^This is a really odd backstory man... but then again, being in this business finding distressed sellers, you are bound to find odd stories.

I am also interested in the wholesaling part of real estate, I live in Northern California where, is a good website to buy distressed property leads.

The market is closer to "euphoric" than it is to "distressed", and while you can't time the market, getting burned in your first deal might be too hard of a lesson to recover from.

It was actually a distressed property I bought, then fixed, then sold. 

All in one software that can locate cash buyers, distressed properties; the liens and notes on them and everything else needed to know. 

I've seen quite a few distressed properties around so I plan on starting there and seeing how it goes.

I got a reply from a distressed seller who was about to lose his house in 10-14 days due to back property taxes.

says to address the land drainage and land grading and get a plumbing leak test and that foundation would not benefit from any type of foundation repair and is not in distress and is structurally fine. 

I'm not sure how comfortable someone would feel giving a distressed homeowner a card stating that they will be earning $500 from it.Best,-JD