By way of background I am an attorney by trade now acting as a broker and I managed 35+ vacation rentals at any given time before selling my vacation rental management company to Turnkey in 2018 to concentrate on brokerage specifically for vacation rental and commercial properties.

Stay away from North Palm Springs where the winds are high and unpleasant AF and concentrate on neighborhoods south of Vista Chino at the very least.

Because much of the teachings are concentrated on finding the seller who is “unaware” of the current value of his property; with Zillow, Trujillo, and Realtor.com, it would be a very rare person indeed who was not able to access the published on line information available. 

One more thing --Work Smart not Hard --Since you have cash - try to concentrate on higher profit margin--look into homes in $150K to $300K --with 50% ARV --and flip at 60% ARV--in other words--shoot for $30K to $40K profit per flip --It is possible in Atlanta and many other cities.

Concentrate on grade C in the path of progress, owned by out-of-staters for at least 5 years.

In fact, life insurance agents don’t want you to know about this because they get a lower commission.Most professionals have this indoctrinated approach of a policy that is primarily concentrated on purchasing a death benefit, as if that was the only benefit of life insurance.

Is the crime that Tukwila gets the rep for concentrated more around the mall?

Killeen is at a lower price than these other markets, but has a high concentration of C/D class properties due to the high transience and low wages of the military.

When people get older or are sick, they’re going to concentrate on the quality of life.

IE  looking for private lender connection   Looking for experts on rehab  Looking for experts on how to source etc and concentrate on those folks and at the least get their card for follow up.