You'd not quit your job to become a full-time stock trader.

MLS are working as Robinhood traders (dont want to get into my soapbox for now) Try wholesale route which is a very slippery slope and you need to 100% confident to make offers on same day .. 

Any advice/ thoughts is greatly appreciated.I have a degree in computer science and would love to trade real estate knowledge/advice for code+website help, if anyone is interested!

All that matters is the relationships you have with the loan traders and their perceived ability that you'll close on time.

(And there are expensive courses to teach you how to do that as a day trader in stocks with your own money, too, that are worth just as much as these real estate investment courses.) 

@Eddie StarrCheck out  Robert Hytha https://www.facebook.com/FIXnotes/I think his company is a trader of  non performing construction loans.

The cemetery in on South Higuera is very low profile and will not likely affect property prices that much with your proximity to the green space, Trader Joes, Vons, and several schools within 5 miles.

get their money out of oppressive governments"yes, which gives it an intrinsic value in the trillions"speculators (not investors)"those are two of the same things. i think you might be trying to differentiate between a "trader" and an "investor".

The Financial advisors you are referring to as having been educated all get paid commissions, the day traders get bonuses based on how much money they are able to bring into their perspective firms every year, they make somewhere between 1-2% of a clients total book and they get paid for every trade that they make "for their client"  for the life time that the client remains with them. 

I've read court cases where IRS argued that "book keeping and research" was not a business activity but an investor activity when a day trader lost 100k in the stock market.