You can target the, while buying a much cheaper ($ per sf) 2+ story. 

So overall I think $5000 is a bit steep from my experience so far, Joe McCall has a cheaper program with the same concepts, but I only know a friend who went through his, but he has been more successful than me.

@Chris JohnYou’re turning $100’s of thousands in tax free gains into taxable gains. 

Some places will be little cheaper some more expensive

I am closing on the sale of my non-RE business in January; we are then selling our home and moving across the country to a cheaper property in Maine.

(b) Most serious cash buyers search HUD properties on a daily basis, so why would they buy a property from you that they could have bought cheaper?

The houses are much cheaper also to start off.

Househacked and renovated myself, allowing me and my fiance to live for cheaper than we were renting.

If there is anyway to move to a cheaper location in CA or out of state that would make your $50K go a lot further. 

I would rather own fewer solid properties than 50 or 100 cheaper properties.I hear a lot about California being a terrible place to invest with landlord tenant laws.