As a reasonably intelligent person, why don't you give it a read and see if your deal would/could work.

If you are wholesaling and honest with the people you are buying from and they are of average intelligence they will not be happy with the situation.

Victor who runs it is a very interesting and intelligent person and the group there is mostly experienced players. good luck.

I can speak very intelligently about what transitional areas in my own market would make great investments....however I would not be able to point to something from an outsider to make them understand my market.

You seem like a really intelligent person so I kind of want to give you a little counter intuitive piece of advice.  

So in my opinion why go to A, B, C, D if your goal is to go to "Y".Julian, it's obvious that you are a very very intelligent person that is very very driven....  

They get back to you immediately, they are very intelligent and work with a lot of people within real estate (from people who do this as a supplement to their primary income to full-time professionals).

SoCal is a funky REI market ... high stakes with millions to be made and lost ... mid west dudes think we're all insane speculators out here, but there are intelligent ways to invest (without speculation) and it is not necessarily the same strategies deployed in other markets that dominate discussions here on BP.

I studied Real estate for 3 years before I ever did my first deal 6 year I got my license you will learn as you ago little by little and eventual get to a point were you get confident in your knowledge because you notice you have educated your self enough to be able to hold and intelligent conversation with the best of them.

After you have done a walkthrough and taken pictures of everything you should be able to firm this up and make an intelligent offer that reflects reality.