He was quite fit (muscular) and I figured he played professional sports.

Infact, before purchasing this property, I had a condo up at sports village which does allow nightly rentals.

You are listening to the wrong people, turn your brains off and simply assume that 3% success rate marketing for leads is standard because all these people Infront of their sports car tell you that this is normal, that this is how you do it.NOW... this the the most amazing thing ever...Realize this.

What I love about MF is that it's a team sport.

Sacramento has a great nightlife, pro sports team, and a airport.

You have to know the neighborhoods, what's going to sell, where to add value, how to get the deal priced correctly, and how to exit the deal (financing relationships at banks, etc).So it's not us saying you can't find a good deal to flip for appreciation - but its a contact sport out there right now and for someone with little time you are at risk of losing capital, not gaining.As far as choosing a rental that "you" would live in - think of picking a property that your niece, nephew, son, or daughter would want to live in.

Like high school sports.

The town has been slowly growing as the commercial center of the region for some years and is in construction on a sports-tourism complex and a casino-hotel.I would finance the needed rehab with the equity, inspectors and contractors have already been through it for a prior offer and given the needed work a thumbs-up. 

Everything college sports, actually, gets me really pumped up.

Any successful investor on here will tell you this is largely a team sport.