Or am I going to have endless battles with CPA’s as I expand my bookkeeping practice?

Endless amount of information on there. 

BP is the "Bill Gates" of REI information and networking...so you have endless amounts of resources at your disposal.  

The endless pointless meetings, pretending to care about company wide announcements, having to sell products that I didn’t find valuable at all.

These represent the soft underbelly of note investing (and hundreds of percent ROI in many cases, for a lot of hard work).All notes involve some amount of risk that can scare the daylights out of you with the endless horror stories.

He gave the same guru pitch one has heard endless times of "I'm giving you this and that...plus that and this......totalling smillions of dollars worth of valuable education and marketing, but tonight and tonight only because you showed up I'm giving you a huge discount to only $19.95 (actually a little more than that but you get the drift) ...plus I'll even throw in...."

I have to the story before of when I started and the first foreclosure I every walked in had the floor covered completely in yellow letters, business cards & flyers.So with that said the simple solution is to switch the list you mail to absentee owners may be the runner up, You have probates since very few people like to put in the work to pulling the list from the clerks office.What list are you mailing too?

Bottom line, you have endless possibilities between the paid off duplex and the home equity in your personal residence. 

I'm an avid runner and cyclist, so even if I move, I'd always like to keep a place in the Bay Area.

High inflation, increased money supplies and endless social assistance programs aren’t going to make investors feel any warmer inside.