Given your previous career, your goals, and wanting to diversify your investments, I'm wondering if you might find value in the PassivePockets community, it's a community with private forum dedicated to passive investing in syndications.

A difficult concept to grasp if you don't work on loans every day.

Learn to spot these and it'll help you immensely in your real estate career.

Raising the  amount required to buy your target properties is not easy, and beyond the amount that must be raised without leverage it will be difficult for you to provide favorable return profile for your investors.

The squatter possibly has warrants on him and will be difficult to locate. 

If the only indication that he is difficult is not wanting to send his ID to a stranger on Facebook, I wouldn't blame him. 

As I look into the market and start to build a team I had a few questions:1)  How difficult is it to get and keep a rental license OOS?

My name is Jaedon Carlisle.I am a new investor looking for 4-plexes and small commerical units.I currently reside in Redding as well and I would be very interested in meetups or any existing groups.As mentioned above, I have noticed very little inventory and the inventory that exists seems to be very expesnive relative to what I believe constitutes a good deal (at least in my inexperienced view).I am 26 and looking to make this my career.

The older the home the more difficult (and therefore expensive) it's likely to be to restore a home to pre-loss condition2.

Once you have family and get a bit older, house hacking gets difficult.