Stop with the guru sites, the videos, all that nonsense is pure crap designed to drive the lazy into highly risky investments or investment schemes that will surely see you make a little or lose a lot. 

If you want to be completely self-sufficient, you're willing to build an Earthbag home or another building that can be earthquake proofed but can still be run without public utilities, you can spend a ton of money on a well and can have that well water processed to remove contaminated mine crap, you have a great off-road vehicle and you can figure out how to deal with the flooding without redirecting that water onto someone else's land then you can definitely live there.If it's an Investment you're after, give that up.

For example, cheap goods at Walmart let people buy more cheap crap but at the expense, at least partially, of good manufacturing jobs that supported local communities. 

I found some amazing tutorials on YouTube itself that taught me the basics of video editing and optimizing titles and thumbnails.

Let them pull this crap in CA now.

You re rolling the dice in craps hoping you can fall on the right one.

I purchased/still going through tutorials, entering data and trying to learn the program. 

With VRBO you there is no damage coverage or insurance unless you pay for it separately, the website and app are very clunky and you can't vet any guests - it's a crap shoot! 

But the property has not been well maintained over the past decade or two, and foundation issues scare the crap out of me. 

There's one near me that was purchased and is operating remotely - it's gone to crap.