As long as its not a D- area with where all the tenants are dealing drugs and what not. 

Now I know what not to type.

I'm always willing to share "what not to do," since I managed to do everything wrong the first time.

Of course I'd be willing to help out in return for working with me person-to-person and teaching me about how to go about my first buy, be it scouting out homes, running numbers, or whatnot. 

Great advice on what not to do and for wholesalers to do a little more homework on deals before putting it out there.  

I guess the other side to it is that if you invest in these class C areas with high vacancies and what not, appreciation is a much bigger risk than investing in a decent area?

If any one on here can please give me some advise of what to do and what NOT to do???

In CA they require 4 years, they do recognize the education, if you have engineering degree or what not, in that case you still have to get 1 year experience in the trade, maybe not really pounding hammers but at least a supervisory level.

I know they go MLS to get best price, I have no idea if there are pitfalls or what not, new to investing but 12 years in government construction as self performing contractor.

You can learn from the experiences of others for both "what to do" and "what not to do".