That is incredible on a 210K property.

If that's the case, what are some of the screening techniques I can use to have a warmer and fuzzier feeling that they will pay me every month.  

The Bay Area is the best place to invest - incredible appreciation, skyrocketing rents, and if you look hard enough, cash flow. 

I'm incredibly interested in the investment side of real estate, and am really eager to learn all I can!

A lot of condos here in Las Vegas run into trouble with financing because the owner occupancy for the community is < 50%, but generally speaking the bank should tell you precisely why.If you don't want to put any cash down, you can research creative financing techniques here on BP, but the more creative the solution, the less appealing it is (generally speaking) and is a tough sell in a hot market. 

Kids, this has been an incredibly enlightening thread for me.

You will need to look long and hard and be incredibly transparent.

There are other strategies and techniques I use but many are not available to unlicensed personnel so the above are the best strategies for her to utilize.

Since wholesaling is just a job (with no income guarantees) that requires an incredible amount of knowledge, I would do my extra $80k/yr OT.  

At this point, I am prepared to invest $30-40k for a downpayment and torn between and still learning about 3 options - rehab/flip in San Diego, turnkey cashflow investment in Chicago/Indiana, Out of state rehab/flip.This is really an incredible forum looking at the "ready to share knowledge" culture which further emphasizes in my mind that real estate is really not a zero sum game...I look forward to connecting with folks here...