If you offer high quality affordable housing, you'll always find and magically attract good tenants. 

Networking,  is mostly with rehabbers in the group that we sell houses to. 

Cash for keys is definitely the best way to get people out in the day when I was very active at court houses steps cash for keys was by far the best way to get folks to move and bad tenants in a state with bad eviction laws to me would be the preferred method. you simply pay them when they are leaving the house not before.. that works fine and you give them more than 1k .. you make it worth their while..

There’s an obvious housing shortage here in SoCal.

Only other wild card is if they destroy the house on the way out.

When you say as long as its not directly in flight path, meaning - when plane flies over the house?

They ended up billing me $200 a month for several months before I realized what they had done.My wife's a Realtor and we flipped a couple houses that she found for us.

Many successful investors started small, such as with house hacking or buying affordable properties to rent out.

Hello,I purchased James Dainard’s new book The House Flipping Framework on Audible.

Lower property taxes, affordable housing compared to LA (CA buyers are usually cash buyers because what they net from their smaller home in CA can get them a bigger home here, often covered by what they net from their CA sale), allergies (smog), and politics.