The more you broaden your knowledge the better informed you'll be and you'll be in a position to spot the BS from fact or solid advice.

Broaden your search if ya'll are not successful.

I already feel 100% confident, its just time to broaden my knowledge and open myself up to new things.Im not 13 anymore, and this isn't a small boat cleaning business.

I would even broaden it out to what other sources of funding do people use?

A light lipstick remodel to get that top dollar.I just want all of you to broaden your vision as I know many people think they are looking for the ugliest house, but can't get a deal on it so they never even do a deal. 

I am a REALTOR in So California and interested in focusing a good part of my business on REO's/BPO's and possibly Short Sales, is there training or course work about the in's and outs of working with REO's/BPO's/Shorts Sales that brings more credibility and allows me to broaden my knowledge base in these areas?

If he/she doesn't then IMO you don't want to be working with them.The school of hard knocks will broaden your perspectives.

I used listsource since it's what all my sources(from books to youtube) recommended.I am currently trying to find pre-foreclosures and tax lien preforeclosures leads using listsource and what I am finding in my market is when I search for properties in my target zip codes (sfr, duplex, triplex, quad) and then select pre-forclosure from the property tab select pre-forclosure my results drop to 0 :/I broadened my search to include all of the Minneapolis areas and I get just 248when I go to the foreclosure tab and select pending auction sale( i was instructed via youtube this is where I'd get people whose houses are headed to tax lien foreclosure but the date of the auction hasn't been set) and set it even a yr out my results are zero!

I'll probably just rent out the mobile home for a year or so, so it will be considered investment property, then do a 1031 exchange for less expensive properties to broaden my portfolio.  

It is generally relatively inexpensive for the amount of additional limit but does not necessary broaden coverage in any significant way.