I talked to my girlfriend and we are heavily leaning towards a multi family to reduce costs and maximize delayed gratification.

Second, I hope to delegate as much as possible, for maximizing the passiveness of my income structures.

I believe in maximizing your land use - so if you can fit an additional "unit" without having to go buy some other investment out of state, pay RE fees, closing cost, etc etc etc - you end up saving some of those costs and reinvest into the land you already own. 

I started this project hoping i could efficiently review the most amount of properties in order to maximize the potential investment options to bid at auction....this is what I have so far.First thing i did was to create the listings, I matched the properties been auctioned with their corresponding pics and the property specs (rooms, size, floors etc.).Second, for each property I automated the data collection process from public records and created a report with: Foreclosure info, owner info, taxes data, liens including mortgages , satisfaction of mortgages,  assigments, violations and permits and court dockets.This data is updated daily to capture new filings (specially the dockets to capture bk and motions to cancel sales)Now that i have the data i can apply my personal "preferences" to go through the report and in a few minutes discard  properties that have certain attributes I "dislike". 

Given the times in which we live, what is the best way to invest $50K in Real Estate over the next year to maximize Cash Flow and wealth accumulation?

To maximize your cash out at 70-75%, for a home that has a $1M ARV, I would want to see it rent for at least $10K a month (or even more since CA had high taxes). 

I would recommend fixing up the unit you are in and then each unit that opens up to maximize your equity! 

Helping a family maximize the value of the estate.

In the podcast they spoke about multifamily and creative ways to maximize returns creatively.

Just seeing who’s who in the area and figure out how to maximize our output and avoid those easy “avoidable” mistakes.