Since I live in California, I will be hiring a managment company to take care of it for me, while I lay back and collect those sweet, sweet rent checks ;) Any thoughts on the property or the area?

The idea is to gain soft control on the owner side and hard control on the buyers side which puts you in the sweet spot.

Personally, I'd suggest you look at 4-family if its in your price range as that will give you the sweet spot where you can start seeing a decent return.

I'm gonna try and keep this short and sweet. 

I have been finding my deals from MLS through analyzing lots of houses (I mean lots, almost every house), having my own data analysis tools, looking at lots of houses, finding out the sweet spot during negotiation with the owners and/or giving them some incentive during closing (faster closing, waivers etc. ).

Welcome @Conner Sweet.

The condo association's attorney sent a certified letter demanding payment of what they paid for the wining bid when they did the foreclosure for the condo assessments. 

See what will make the deal sweet for everyone involved. 

Hi Brett,I read your book of Simple wholesaling. it was a good short and sweet description. thanks for your honest inputs and tips for the new Investors.Are you familiar with the market in MA by any chance?

@Melani Sweet my question about hard money would be how would you make the payments in between when you purchased the property and when the 1031 closed?