You'll find lots of this kind of information on the Sacramento Forums, but you'll also want to team-up with a street-wise agent who can help you shortcut the learning curve, as you aren't the first investor to want to know these questions.Most importantly...

Sometimes decent people who care about their property are thrust into difficult situations and lose their homes, but other times, the property was never truly affordable for the owners, so they may have taken shortcuts on maintenance or neglected the property outright.

I can only speak for myself, but I would never risk losing my professional status and any of those 11 units just to take a shortcut and bypass the legal system. 

My goal is to offer more value than any other person out their and I'm pretty sure I do that.When someone buy's my stuff, their not buying a 300+ pages of guides and 12 CD's of audio....There buying and getting a short cut, condensed, lesson of my experience buying and selling over $11,000,000 worth of real estate and 120+ homes....That means, they don't need to make the same mistakes I did, they don't need to reinvent the wheel, they basically have an exact map of everything I've done to succeed.

I'm not looking for a short cut, get rich quick method, or even pay some of my life savings away to learn about REI - that simply plain stupidity in my opinion (no offense to any that has paid a lot money to learn about real estate investment and hope you gain a returned on your investment).

Those looking for a shortcut are easy pray.

There aren't any shortcuts.

Stop looking for the shortcut - it doesn't exist.

I can prove, with solid fact, that that investor haphazardly through money into a marketing mailer that was unsuccessful, and expensive. 

The program they sell implies that it will accelerate you to your success, essentially get rich quick, all the while he says "there are no shortcuts to success".