Wholesaling isn't my specialty, but for those wholesalers I've worked with generally aren't looking to give you personal tips or strategies to be more consistent, they're generally just say, "get a list, call all of them, and then follow up in a week" or something similar.

Do you have any other tips on "the live" in flip potential in LA? 

If it wasn’t the insurance it would have been the property taxes.

Account Closed I have had tremendous success using direct mail and mailing the owner of record where the tax bills get mailed to.Generally, property management companies don’t pay the real estate taxes so this gets me right to the owner.Targeting wise, I would just do a zip code filtered by unit count using a service like listsource.  

At a 37% tax rate, this creates around $117k in tax savings, reducing your taxable income from $700k to $583k.2.

Baselane has the added advantage of synching with your Schedule E you'll use at tax time to file your taxes.

It's an estimated cash on cash return given current rental rates subtract expenses assuming 7% interest rate, 10% management fee, 5% repairs, 5% capex and other expenses like mortgage, insurance, tax. it's a estimate to tell you what properties to analyze vs ignoreyou can see the are pockets of negative returns as well as pockets of positive return. this is to supplement the data @Devin Conley provided

If someone was over during a high consumption month I'd give then a notice/warning for the first month along with some energy consumption tips then tack it onto the rent. 

Is the option government supplied insurance where taxes supplement the insurance?  

He is very good about deductions on tax returns so his income looks negligible and of course banks wont talk to him about loans.