But in my imagination it seems like a good way to create some prime real estate in the city limits.

However, if you're a W2 high income earner or business owner, I can't imagine it makes any sense to flip houses, mail mass post cards, wholesale, or build lead gen websites with the value of your time being better spent other places (such as learning about real estate and increasing your income through proven means), such as at your 9-5pm or growing your business, and your real estate is a long term process and you don't need "home run" deals to qualify or make it work.

I can imagine with having young ones, it can be a lot!

California has seen huge uptick in home insurance, I'd imagine Santa Cruz has a high fire insurance

You can be as creative as you can imagine.

I would imagine things that are skewed towards whatever holiday is coming up would be big sellers too.  

I can imagine it is considerably more work as well as I plan to manage myself.

I can't imagine what large investors are going through.

I imagine you’re right about the eviction and at the end of the day it will cost me some money, but at least I’ll learn the process and how to better screen tenants (I inherited this one).If you ever get up to Boston let me know.  

I can’t imagine the returns you would have to generate. 22% federal tax, plus 8% state tax, plus 10% penalty.