I’ve experienced a wide variety of permitting/City planning tar pits in my construction career.  

You mentioned a wide variety of interests - so my suggestion is to focus on one or two that really resonate with you and dive in.

Like you said, its likely going to depend on a variety of factors depending on the property.

Check out Lima One Capital at limaonecapital.com they have a variety of program options 

Add in inflation, tax benefits to include depreciation, the slow increasing of rents over time, and the ability to use leverage at purchase--well, there are a variety of benefits to investing in property.

I can do a variety of things involved with remodel.

Creativity comes with restrictions especially in SoCal where we have a variety of properties built from the 30s, 50s, 80s, 90s, and now.

Since then I’ve completed my undergraduate degree in Info Tech, held a variety of positions in I.T., started a family and am possibly looking into starting my graduate degree in January of 2017.I’ve been quite interested in entrepreneurship for a while now and have chosen Real Estate as the venture that I believe will launch me into an entrepreneurial career as well as trading in FOREX.

My family was of the middle class variety but I never "wanted" anything.

Sellers do not want to go through the time, effort and exposure, or tie up their property, in a transaction that has no chance to close.There are those extremely rare cases, that become real estate legend, in which a buyer with little capital, and no borrowing capacity, is successful in convincing a seller of a large, expensive property to take him seriously and is able to perform a high wire act of raising capital from a variety of unconventional sources and actually complete the purchase.